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Download full textUK Department for Education, 2021
In 2017, the government launched Career Learning Pilots in order to test the design and provision of various training approaches for working adults with low to intermediate skills. As part of this initiative, the Department for Education provided approximately £11.3 million in funding to pilot projects that offered flexible and accessible ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Adult Students, Student Participation
Direct linkHampson, Ian; Fraser, Doug – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The training and licencing of aircraft maintenance engineers fulfils a crucial protective function since it is they who perform and supervise aircraft maintenance and certify that planes are safe afterwards. In Australia, prior to training reform, a trades-based system of aircraft maintenance engineer training existed in an orderly relation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aviation Mechanics, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Training Methods
Perry, Beth; Boman, Jeanette; Care, W. Dean; Edwards, Margaret; Park, Caroline – Journal of Educators Online, 2008
Why do nursing and health studies graduate students who are enrolled in online programs decide to withdraw? The qualitative study reported in this paper investigated students' self-identified reasons for withdrawing from an online graduate program in nursing and health studies. The focus of the study was Athabasca Universities' Centre for Nursing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Peer reviewedMurphy, Julie – Journal of Access and Credit Studies, 2003
A study of access students in the Open College Network (178 of 776) examined institutional and personal factors that inhibit or enhance program completion. Variations in program organization and delivery among different providers had a significant impact. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Adult Students, Course Organization
