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Peer reviewedThursfield, Denise; Smith, Vikki; Holden, Rick; Hamblett, John – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2002
Evaluation of the implementation of Individual Learning Accounts in Britain revealed five themes that may explain the program's lack of success: individualistic approach to adult education, conflict of individualism with partnership, ineffective targeting of low-skilled populations, lack of linkage with a lifelong commitment to learning, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Download full textBlackburn, Jean – 1981
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is similar to the Disadvantaged Schools Program of Australia in some ways and distinctively different in others. This comparison of the two programs by an Australian educator points out the similarities and differences in program purpose, regulation, funding targets, and local control. Both…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educationally Disadvantaged
Tomlinson, D. G.; Tannock, P. D. – 1982
A total of 3,732 recipients of Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) allowances during 1979 and 1980 received questionnaires and parents of 313 families were interviewed to determine who benefitted from the AIC Scheme, what use was made of the AIC allowance, what effect did the AIC Scheme appear to have had, and what anomalies existed in relation…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Boarding Schools, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems
