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UK Department for Education, 2023
The proportion of higher education (HE) students reporting a mental health condition to their university has been increasing over recent years. Young people in particular are susceptible to poor mental health as they transition into adulthood. The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned IFF Research to undertake a survey and qualitative…
Descriptors: College Students, Access to Health Care, Mental Health, Well Being
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Breitenbach, Marlene M.; Armstrong, Vickie L.; Bryson, Susan E. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
In this article, we describe an inclusive educational programme for a young boy severely affected by autism. The programme is exemplary not only academically, but also in terms of what children need socially and emotionally. It represents best practices in action. Given the wide agreement about what constitutes best education practices, but the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Autism, Severe Disabilities, Inclusion
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Edwards, Anne – School Organisation, 1993
Despite considerable focus on school-development planning and cooperative-management forms in (British) primary schools, little effort has been made to link curriculum, staff, and school-development concerns through the work of curriculum coordinators. A recent survey shows that curriculum coordinators are confined to consultant roles. This…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Consultants, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Duncan, Deirdre J. – 1977
Organizational development (OD) can be of value as a professional development tool in the school, especially where it can broaden the perspective of the teacher so that he can conceptualize the school as an organization with various related units working to achieve the same goal, see more clearly his place in the total educational program of the…
Descriptors: Consultants, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Nicodemus, Robert – 1996
This paper presents examples from 10 internal consultancies provided by the author within the Open University (United Kingdom) that reveal how teams develop and are integrated into the systems of a complex institution. These consultancies included: providing consulting services to a course team; counseling with a course team chair; serving as a…
Descriptors: Consultants, Consultation Programs, Counseling Services, Distance Education
Gaasholt, Marie – 1980
Self-formulating study-groups, comprised of teachers voluntarily meeting with consultant leaders, are used in Denmark as an effective tool for identifying and discussing relevant problems and developing action programs. The general educational approach employed in self-formulating study-groups includes a problem orientation related to the…
Descriptors: Consultants, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Group Discussion
Faraday, Sally; Harris, Richard – 1989
Where to get help to teach special needs students is the subject of this document, the last of 9 modules in an 11-unit resource pack designed to help trainers and postsecondary and continuing education staff meet the needs of special needs students in Great Britain. Having completed the module, staff should be able to: (1) identify when learners…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Consultants, Continuing Education, Educational Diagnosis