Adult education is an internationally recognised framework for national development, especially for unemployed youth and adult learners. The study focuses on Botswana's Adult Basic Education Programme (ABEP). Though the programme is monitored continuously, beneficiaries' views of the triumphs, challenges, and prospects they face are still unknown,…

This mixed-methods study illustrates the implementation of Malcolm Knowles's 1986 model of learning contracts in a current Italian University context. The study attempted to improve and adapt the tool to a master's degree course at the University of Padua. Three professors conducted the integrated course, making extensive efforts to share the aims…

The importance of numeracy for professional practice in nursing is increasingly recognized in the USA, UK and elsewhere, but there is no consensus on what is meant by numeracy for nursing, nor on how it should be taught, learned and assessed. Meanwhile, studies in various countries indicate a lack of proficiency in numeracy of some students and…