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Wynne, Carlise Womack; Satchwell, Deryck – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
This article outlines a case study of creating a system of quality assurance in Belize while also building the capacity of teaching staff in order to support the process of establishing quality standards in tertiary education. This case study outlines the process of establishing the first quality assurance system in the nation's history as well as…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Case Studies, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Balendr, Andrii; Komarnytska, Oksana; Bloshchynskyi, Ihor – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper reports on an innovative approach to evaluate the level of harmonisation of Ukrainian border guards training with the common standards for border guarding in the European Union (EU) member-states. There are different types of borders and different organisational structures in border guard agencies in the EU. The authors present the…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Standards, National Curriculum, Innovation
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Mphahlele, M. J.; Tafesse, F. – Africa Education Review, 2015
The University of South Africa's (UNISA) College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) stands unique in the world by offering laboratory-based disciplines through Open Distance Learning (ODL) at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Lack of postgraduate programmes in chemistry at the very few ODL institutions offering undergraduate…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Distance Education, Open Education, Graduate Students
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Mills, Jane; Birks, Melanie; Francis, Karen – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2014
This paper examines the concept of learning communities as defined in the literature. An existing case study is described, and the issues that facilitated and constrained the development of this learning community are considered and discussed. Strategies to address threats to the ongoing viability and usefulness of a learning community to support…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communities of Practice, Program Descriptions, Research Projects
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Blouin, David D.; Moss, Alison R. – Teaching Sociology, 2015
Twenty years ago, Pescosolido and Milkie (1995) reported that 50 percent of U.S. and Canadian sociology graduate programs offered formal teacher training. Despite pronouncements that offerings have increased substantially, no similarly thorough and direct investigation has been published since. In this time of dramatic change and increasing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Relevance (Education), Teacher Education Programs, Sociology
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Mundie, Pauline; Marr, Robert – Global Education Review, 2014
John Paul College, a K-12 School in Queensland, Australia, recognises the centrality of classroom teachers to the ongoing improvement of student outcomes. The College has implemented a multi-tiered "professional renewal and assessment process." These changes of emphasis are the result of significant research and subsequent/associated…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions, Behavioral Objectives
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Lester, Stan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
The TRAVORS projects, supported by the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme, ran between 2008 and 2012. Their object was to develop training programmes for disability employment practitioners across nine countries based on proven approaches both to vocational rehabilitation and to skills training. The second of the two projects aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Vocational Rehabilitation, Program Validation
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Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper explores the management and outcomes of a specific model of intergenerational learning, concerned with student digital leader support in a number of secondary schools in England. A local educational partnership set up a student digital leader project late in 2011, which aimed to develop a range of skills and outcomes for both the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Educational Practices, Technology Education
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Ekanayake, Sakunthala Y.; Wishart, Jocelyn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper presents the development and implementation of a professional development workshop series on integrating mobile phones into science teaching for a group of teachers in Sri Lanka. The series comprised a 3-day Planning Workshop followed by implementation of the planned lessons in real classrooms and a subsequent 1-day Reviewing Workshop.…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Voerman, Lia; Meijer, Paulien C.; Korthagen, Fred; Simons, Robert Jan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study describes an evaluation of a theory-based trajectory for professional development called FeTiP (Feedback-Theory into Practice) that aims to have an observable effect on teacher classroom behavior. FeTiP is a multicomponent trajectory for professional development and combines several types of interventions. Its goal is to help teachers…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Faculty Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Behavior
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Henderson, Robyn; Noble, Karen; Cross, Kathleen – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2013
This paper describes a strategy, designed by a faculty of education in a regional Australian university, to induct pre-service educators into the education profession. It then focuses on one component of the strategy, an initiative called Education Commons. This initiative uses a model of critical reflection to engage pre-service educators in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Educational Strategies
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Lieberman, Ann; Campbell, Carol; Yashkina, Anna – New Educator, 2015
The Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) has given us an excellent example of what happens when the conditions for learning are created for teachers, rather than teaching them in the traditional professional development way from the "outside" in. For 7 years, the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Ontario Teachers Federation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Teacher Education Programs
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Wedell, Klaus – Support for Learning, 2012
The aim of this article is to give an account of a self-help "bottom-up" continuing professional development (CPD) facility for SENCos which has been built up over the last 16 years. This CPD was originally intended to supplement any substantive training that might have been provided by local authorities (LAs) and by further and higher…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Training Methods, Training Objectives, Qualifications
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Griffiths, Mark; Armour, Kathleen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
The aim of our study was to examine formalized mentoring as a learning strategy for volunteer sports coaches and to consider implications for other volunteer groups in the community. Despite the increasingly popular use of mentoring as a learning and support strategy across professional domains, and the sheer scale of volunteer sports coach…
Descriptors: Mentors, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Volunteers
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2010
The graduate of the Hairstylist apprenticeship program is a certified journeyperson who will be able to perform the following tasks: (1) haircutting; (2) chemical texturing, chemical relaxing; (3) hair colouring; (4) eyebrow and eyelash treatment; (5) facial services for hairstyling purposes (moustaches and beards); (6) wigs and hair additions;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Course Descriptions, Vocational Education
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