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Richards, K. Andrew R.; Kern, Ben D.; Ayers, Suzan F.; Mays Woods, Amelia; Graber, Kim C. – Quest, 2021
In line with trends in general education, physical education teacher education programs have faced lowering enrollments over the last few decades. These circumstances have led to the closure of some PETE programs while faculty members at others have been called to increase recruitment and retention efforts to reverse the negative enrollment…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Declining Enrollment, Student Recruitment
Lillian Flemons; Dawson McLean; Suzanne Straw; Gillian Keightley – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2024
Further education (FE) plays a key part in the post-16 educational landscape in England in delivering technical and academic education that is vital to the country's supply of skilled workers. Yet, despite this importance, the sector has been facing significant challenges in recent years, including critical staff shortages in some subject areas.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Salary Wage Differentials
Bethany Lewis; Daniel Rossman; Rafael Pasillas; Rebecca Klein-Collins – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The Latino and Adult Student Success (LASS) Academy is a multi-year initiative administered by CAEL (the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) focused on supporting Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in their efforts to improve outcomes for adult and Latino adult learners. In its first phase, from 2018 through 2021, the LASS Academy…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adult Students, Universities, Technical Assistance
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Sukarno; Sumarwati – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
One of the education programs for principals in Indonesia is online continuing professional development or CPD. This research aims to understand the participant's perceptions of the effectiveness of online CPD for principals. This study applies the CIPP evaluation. The respondents were 69 principals of primary and secondary schools in Central…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Electronic Learning
Person, Ann; Bruch, Julie; Goble, Lisbeth; Severn, Veronica; Hong, Ashley – Mathematica, 2020
Lumina Foundation seeks to increase the proportion of Americans who hold a postsecondary credential to 60 percent by 2025, across all racial, ethnic, immigration, and income groups. Recognizing that this goal cannot be achieved through a focus on traditional-age college students alone, Lumina launched the Adult Promise initiative in 2017. Between…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Students, State Policy
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Kruger, Tina M.; Clark-Shirley, Leanne J.; Guest, Marc Aaron – Educational Gerontology, 2019
Given its rapidly-aging population, the U.S. needs a workforce that is informed about and capable of meeting the diverse needs of older adults. Students pursing gerontology education may feel unsure of career opportunities as they enter a job market with traditionally clearly-defined disciplinary backgrounds. The goal of this study was to explore…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Job Applicants, Occupational Information, Advertising
UK Department for Education, 2021
In 2017, the government launched Career Learning Pilots in order to test the design and provision of various training approaches for working adults with low to intermediate skills. As part of this initiative, the Department for Education provided approximately £11.3 million in funding to pilot projects that offered flexible and accessible ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Adult Students, Student Participation
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Lee, Jung Min – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
This study was designed to assess continuing and potential students' perceptions regarding factors affecting the overall quality of one Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program in the southeastern United States. The study also sought to assess program participants' perceptions of the impact of hypothesized situational, institutional, and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Geographic Location, Transportation
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O'Neill, Jerry; Fitzsimons, Camilla – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2020
This article presents and discusses the findings of a small-scale research project into the occupational outcomes of graduates of an Initial Teacher (Further) Education (ITE) programme at Maynooth University in Ireland. The findings from this mixed-method research indicate that many graduates experience high levels of occupational precarity and a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Career Development
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
This short description contributes to better understanding of vocational education and training (VET) in Germany by providing insight into its main features and highlighting system developments and current challenges. Learning on the job is traditional in German education. Work-based learning (WBL) features in most secondary and tertiary VET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Influences, Secondary Education
Buckwalter, Veronica; Togila, Jessica – Jobs for the Future, 2019
Community colleges and non-traditional student populations, such as adult learners, often experience a unique set of academic and non-academic challenges. This is particularly true for those in rural America, where resources and community supports are less abundant. This report describes how rural community colleges are overcoming these barriers…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Access to Education, Nontraditional Students
Davis, Leanne; Watts, Kimberly; Ajinka, Julie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2019
Nearly 41 million American adults live 25 miles or more from the nearest university or college, or in areas where only a single community college offers accessible public higher education. This physical isolation leads to stark economic inequities, where the wealthiest 10 percent of the nation's zip codes are considered "college-rich"…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Rural Areas, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2021
Over the last year and a half, British Columbians (BC) have worked together to decrease the spread and reduce exposure to COVID-19. BC teachers have risen to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as it has taken its toll. Teachers are on the front-line of witnessing what is needed to move BC from a crisis response to a longer-term--and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Urdan, Trace; Cooper, Preston – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
Fewer than half of working-age adults hold a credential beyond a high school diploma. As the economy increasingly moves from an industrial base to a knowledge base, this population will need access to high-quality degree programs in relevant fields. Fortunately, online learning has made this achievable. The challenge of serving this population…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Public Colleges, Online Courses, Barriers
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Micheaux, Donna J.; Parvin, Jennifer L. – Learning Professional, 2018
Principal evaluation systems without explicit and aligned professional learning simply re-create a system of compliance and fail to improve leadership capacity. Given the complexity of the role of today's principals, they must learn a new set of skills and knowledge to create innovative learning environments. To use principal evaluation as a tool…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Leadership Qualities, Supervisors
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