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Taheri, Pooya; Robbins, Philip; Maalej, Sirine – Education Sciences, 2020
Langara College, as one of the leading undergraduate institutions in the province of British Columbia (BC), offers the "Applied Science for Engineering" two-year diploma program as well as the "Engineering Transfer" two-semester certificate program. Three project-based courses are offered as part of the two-year diploma program…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
Karmel, Tom; Lu, Tham – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This paper presents a case study in which the authors attempted to understand the impact, on student choice, of reforms in tertiary education in Australia, namely, a shift towards a demand-driven system and the blurring of the distinction between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education. The authors compared the advanced…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Associate Degrees, Engineering Technology
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Lee, Wincy W. S. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
Associate (community college) degrees have expanded rapidly in the past decade in Hong Kong, but their value has been questioned due to the limited number of government-funded articulation opportunities available. This paper argues that associate degrees in Hong Kong are not valued solely for articulation purposes, but also for nurturing students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Student Development
Rosenfeld, Stuart – 1998
In this document, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports on the state of technical education in Europe, the United States, and Canada. It states that technical colleges are emerging as key institutions in technology-based education to fill industry requirement for more highly skilled and technically proficient…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Business, College Role, Community Colleges