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Canadian Commission of Employment and Immigration, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1984
Paid educational leave should become a regular feature of work life in Canada, according to the National Advisory Panel on Skill Development Leave. Following an eight-month study of the background and reasons for educational leave, the panel recommended that educational leave be established for the following reasons: (1) equity in allowing persons…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Leaves of Absence
Download full textField, John – 1992
This book presents the results of a study of the British work camps that were initiated in the 1920s as a result of the political need to reduce unemployment among ex-servicemen and that evolved in 1929 into a national system of residential centers to "recondition" long-term unemployed men by exposing them to hard physical labor. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational History, Educational Policy
Leef, Carol; Riddle, Tamara – 1996
This manual was developed as a guide for setting up a workplace education program. Based on the Workplace Education Project (WEP) in Peterborough, Ontario, the manual contains nine chapters that provide details of the WEP and suggestions for implementing the process in other locations. The first chapter provides a rationale for a WEP program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Continuing Education
