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Clark, Elaine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
This article reports on the launching of the Revans Academy for Action Learning and Research at Manchester Business School on 26 November 2008. The goal of the Academy is to foster the development of action learning as a unifying framework within Manchester Business School. Its goal is to provide a hub for dialogue, collaboration, exploitation and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions
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Andes, Laurie – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
Since September 2002, business leaders and educators have been examining the differences in business and educational leadership in a professional development partnership, titled, The Academy for Leadership in Education (ALE). This organization was created as a program to encourage the study of leadership and develop the capacity for mentoring new…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Educational Cooperation
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2007
In this article, the author reports on how a state-of-the-art learning centre based in an old storeroom at First Bus's Orpington depot came into being with support from the Transport and General Workers Union, the European Social Fund, the Learning and Skills Council, and eventually from First Group. The author also describes how it has…
Descriptors: Continuing Education Centers, Resource Centers, Adult Basic Education, Program Descriptions
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Wilson, David L. – International Journal of Career and Continuing Education, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education Centers, Educational History
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Boylan, Colin; Collin, Keith – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2006
A collaborative partnership has evolved between the Riverina Environmental Education Centre (REEC) and Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. The Riverina Environmental Education Centre (REEC) is one of 24 Department of Education and Training environmental education centres in New South Wales (see www.reec.nsw.edu.au). As part of this…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Biodiversity, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
British Columbia Univ., Vancouver. Center for Continuing Education. – 1976
Although the roots of university extension activities at the University of British Columbia (UBC) go back further, the extension department was put on a firm basis in 1936, when the Board of Governors appointed Robert England as the first Director of Extension. University extension at UBC has been succeeded by a Center for Continuing Education,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Continuing Education Centers
Kulich, Jindra – 1978
This report outlines the activities of the University of British Columbia's (UBC's) Center for Continuing Education during the academic year 1977-1978. The first of four sections reviews the development of degree-credit courses and non-credit courses in the guided independent study program. Section 2 discusses the expansion of UBC continuing…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Continuing Education Centers, Credit Courses, Degrees (Academic)
Calvert, Steven L. – 1987
The role of colleges in providing lifelong education for alumni is considered. The book traces 75 years of alumni continuing education, with special attention to the years between 1956 and 1966, the beginning of the modern alumni continuing education era. Guidelines are offered for organizing and planning an alumni lifelong education program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Alumni Education, Case Studies, College Graduates
Quitman Centers for Learning, Marks, MS. – 1969
Offering an overview of the adult education program of Quitman County, Mississippi and its development from 1967 to 1969, the report reviews the history of the community-based project, community problems, resident participation, and project objectives. Begun in 1967 as a volunteer program in adult education for the poor of that rural Delta region,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development
Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, New Delhi (India). – 1974
The purpose of the second evaluation of the Polyvalent Adult Education Center in Bombay, which was established in 1967, was to provide program feedback for India and other developing countries. Following an introduction, part 2 describes the Center program, part 3 consists of a program analysis, and part 4 contains a summary and recommendations.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Audiovisual Aids
British Columbia Univ., Vancouver. Center for Continuing Education. – 1975
The activities of the Centre for Continuing Education, University of British Columbia, and its professional staff are reviewed for the 1974-75 year. A statistical report shows an overall enrollment increase of 13.74%, with part-time, evening, and correspondence credit courses showing expanded student participation and course offerings. A broad…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Community Services, Continuing Education Centers
ENDWRIGHT, D.K. – 1967
THE PLAN FOR EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN CORRECTIVE INSTITUTIONS IS ORGANIZED INTO FIVE TIMED PHASES TO BE COMPLETED IN THREE YEARS. A CHART REPRESENTING THE PROGRAM, AFFILIATED RESEARCH AND AGENCIES DELINEATES PLANNED ACTIVITIES. PHASE ONE (15 WEEKS) WILL SURVEY EXISTING PROGRAMS (VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation