Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…

This article evaluates the effect of a community project that was adopted by the students of a school of social work in Israel. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was used. The pretest was administered during the planning stage of the project and the posttest a year later, during the implementation period. The findings show a significant…

The progress of a foundation-supported community intervention in Israel is traced from the moment of its conceptualization in 1976 to its final adoption in 1983 by the community in which it grew and developed. Part 1, "The Story of a Project," is divided into ten sections, of which the first three describe the project setting, its…