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Butcher, John – Higher Education Academy, 2015
This research set out to investigate the part-time student experience of higher education across the United Kingdom, in the context of a well-publicised contraction in the sector, and increasing divergence between policies affecting part-time study in the four nations. In order to explore the part-time student experience in England, Scotland, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Wyness, Lynne; Jones, Paul; Klapper, Rita – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider the understanding and presence of sustainability within entrepreneurship education. The extant literature on sustainability within the entrepreneurship discipline remains extremely limited. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has related to economic viability as opposed to…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Taylor, Carol; McCaig, Colin – Higher Education Academy, 2014
The policy environment for universities in England has changed significantly over the past few years. This can be seen most obviously in relation to the funding of undergraduate education, but other changes will come to be seen as equally influential in the long term. One example is the change to the policy on controlling student numbers, which is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Student Characteristics, Educational Environment
Towers, Christine – Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (NJ1), 2009
In the past few decades there has been an increasing interest in the role of fathers within families and a growing understanding of the substantial benefits to children, as well as mothers, of their involvement. This briefing focuses on the experiences of fathers who have children with learning disabilities and the approaches that could make it…
Descriptors: Fathers, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Parent Child Relationship
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Jackson, Sue; Jamieson, Anne – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2009
This article considers recent policies of Higher Education in the UK, which are aimed at widening participation and meeting the needs of employers. The focus is on the growing population of part-time students, and the implications of policies for this group. The article takes a critical perspective on government policies, using data from a major…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Social Mobility, Policy Analysis
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Underwood, Jean; Banyard, Phil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
The opening premise of this paper is that education must change but that the nature and direction of that change is uncertain. In England, but not necessarily the UK as a whole, the policy is to produce a more personalised learning experience for all pupils. The policy of personalisation is to be delivered in part by increased use of digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Swailes, Stephen; Roodhouse, Simon – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
This article reviews the reactions to higher-level National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) in the United Kingdom in the context of certification levels by level and subject. The most successful higher NVQs are linked to professional qualifying routes, have generic application across a range of sectors or fill gaps where qualifications were not…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, National Standards
Ekeland, Anders; Tomlinson, Mark – 2001
This document reports a study of the possibility of making indicators of demand and supply of high skilled labor based on the Labor Force Survey (LFS), a data source available in all European countries. Part 1 is a summary of a pilot study of three countries: United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, and Norway. It concludes LFS is a limited data source…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developed Nations, Economic Change, Employment Patterns
Grundin, Hans U. – 1983
The survey reported here of 12,008 students in 93 undergraduate Open University courses was designed to assist in Open University audiovisual policy development and planning and to provide a data base for summative evaluation of audiovisual media use in individual courses. Emphasis was on the first aim, and detailed data were collected only for 17…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Audiovisual Aids, Costs, Distance Education
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Moore, Nick – Journal of Information Science, 1987
Describes emerging employment markets in the United Kingdom that require information skills, and examines the reasons why librarians and information workers have had little impact on these markets. The need for practical competencies, as well as formal qualifications, is cited as a major reason for this trend. (3 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications
Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education, Leicester (England). – 1983
This descriptive state-of-the-art report presents a survey of recent distance learning developments in Britain, mainly by local colleges in the public education sector, and discusses the motivation and experience of adult learners. Distance learning in general is examined, and current models of provision and the audiences served by these programs…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems
Civil, Jean – Coombe Lodge Report, 1992
This report examines student services within British institutions of higher education and provides six case studies of institutions that have developed approaches to the management of their student services. It includes the findings of a national survey of 100 colleges of further education (66 percent responded) that investigated a variety of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Confidentiality, Counseling Services
Ball, Christopher; And Others – Coombe Lodge Report, 1991
This report discusses the governing bodies in United Kingdom schools of higher education which were restructured after the Education Act of 1988, and examines how they can best meet the demands which will be put upon them by the reforms announced in the White Paper "Education and Training for the 21st Century" and the Further and Higher…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Change
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Frick, Elizabeth – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1987
Reports the results of a survey of U.K. librarians that examined where practitioners received training for user education. The finding that training was predominantly received outside of the library school setting is discussed in terms of the need for user education courses within library school curriculums. (CLB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Spencer, Anne; And Others – Coombe Lodge Report, 1987
This report examines the issue of sexual discrimination within British higher education and argues that further and higher educational services as a whole are discriminatory environments for women. The report's first section involves interviews with six women who had achieved notable success in the field of further and higher education management.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Educational Administration, Educational Legislation
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