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Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2023
Higher education institutions are key players in promoting lifelong learning. By offering a variety of educational programmes in different modalities, they address the diverse needs and interests of learners. By establishing flexible learning pathways, they help ensure continuity of learning throughout life. And by maintaining close interaction…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, School Community Relationship, Private Sector
Cowin, Bob – Online Submission, 2013
This report describes private colleges serving adults which since 1936 have been required to register with the provincial government of British Columbia, Canada or, since 1993, with a regulatory body created by the government. The sector has always included career colleges, but registration was expanded temporarily in the 1990s to include all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Vocational Education, Educational History
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Direct linkAdamuti-Trache, Maria; Sweet, Robert – Gender and Education, 2008
This paper contrasts the profiles of women who choose to pursue vocational training in either public institutions (community colleges) or private institutions (career colleges) in Canada with particular attention given to respondents' life-course positions. The study employs 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey data. Correspondence analysis…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Private Colleges, Profiles, Females
