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Palmer, Melanie; San José Cáceres, Antonia; Tarver, Joanne; Howlin, Patricia; Slonims, Vicky; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Charman, Tony – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
The EarlyBird programme is a group-based psychoeducation intervention for parents of young children with autism. Although it is widely used in the United Kingdom, the evidence base for the programme is very limited. Using a mixed method, non-randomised research design, we aimed to test (1) the acceptability of the research procedures (recruitment,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries
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Nodulman, Jessica A. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Although sex education is often provided to young people, there is a lack of spaces where adults can go to learn more about sex from experts in a free and welcoming environment. One place that provides an opportunity for adult sex education is adult sexual retail stores. While these stores aim to be commercially successful, they also fulfil a role…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Adults, Retailing
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Bredlöv, Eleonor – Studies in Continuing Education, 2016
This study focuses on the recruitment of adults to the beauty industry in Sweden. It is concerned with a move in (beauty) education away from state and towards private provision in a wider context where education is becoming more heavily marketised. Drawing on a poststructural approach inspired by the work of Foucault and feminist theory, the…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Adults, Industry, Foreign Countries
Tyler, Mark; Dymock, Darryl – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
There is a lack of distinction and definition around how the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia might effectively recruit and retain suitably qualified teachers, trainers and assessors. The logic is clear: in order to enable and develop an immediate pool of competent and qualified workers for new and developing industries,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Recruitment
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
British Columbia teachers are pleased to have an early opportunity to present their views on priorities for the 2020 provincial budget to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) represents 43,000 teachers and associated professionals in public schools across British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Funding Formulas
Person, Ann E.; Bruch, Julie; Goble, Lisbeth – Mathematica, 2019
There is a growing movement across the country to get more adults to enroll in college and complete higher education programs. Fewer than half of the nearly 170 million U.S. residents between the ages of 25 and 64 have obtained a postsecondary degree or certificate. The statistics for adult students of color who have attained higher education are…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Adult Students, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
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Melchiorre, Marilyn Martin; Johnson, Scott A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
Although traditional student enrollment is declining, the nontraditional segment of students is growing. This enrollment pattern will require recruitment strategies that speak directly to the adult learners. There is robust adoption of social media use by individuals and by organizations for marketing purposes. Social media marketing includes…
Descriptors: Social Media, Outreach Programs, Professional Continuing Education, Higher Education
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Radford, Alexandria Walton; Robles, Jessica; Cataylo, Stacey; Horn, Laura; Thornton, Jessica; Whitfield, Keith E. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
While press coverage of MOOCs (massive open online courses) has been considerable and major MOOC providers are beginning to realize that employers may be a market for their courses, research on employers' receptivity to using MOOCs is scarce. To help fill this gap, the Finding and Developing Talent study surveyed 103 employers and interviewed a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mixed Methods Research, Employers, Interviews
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Buston, Katie – Child Care in Practice, 2018
Recruiting, retaining and engaging men in social interventions can be challenging. The focus of this paper is the successful implementation of a parenting programme for incarcerated fathers, delivered in a Young Offender Institution (YOI) in Scotland. Reasons for high levels of recruitment, retention and engagement are explored, with barriers…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Tolbert, Michelle; Foster, Laura Rasmussen – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
Although reentry education is well documented as an evidence-based, cost-effective approach to preparing incarcerated adults for release (Davis et al. 2014), education services offered by correctional facilities often are disconnected from community-based education programs and other support. This lack of communication and coordination can make it…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Reentry Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2021
Career and technical education (CTE) programs are increasingly engaging a broad range of stakeholders, including parents and community organizations, to improve CTE programs, better serve students and help communities in need. This resource will focus on ways that CTE educators can communicate with, collaborate with and support current and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Vocational Education Teachers
Learning and Work Institute, 2019
More than 5 million adults lack both functional literacy (below level 1) and numeracy (below entry level 3); an estimated 11.5 million adults do not have basic digital skills; and one in five adults do not have basic financial capabilities. Around 850,000 people have English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) needs. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Barr, Jason – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
As the economy in the United States continues to emerge from a recession and as jobs become more technologically advanced rendering other jobs obsolete, more and more Americans over the age of 50 are now attending college for a variety of reasons. Around 77% of the so-called Plus 50 students were enrolled in two-year public institutions. Other…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Technological Literacy, Job Skills, Adults
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Hill, Ron; James, Chris; Forrest, Colin – Management in Education, 2016
"Further education" (FE) is a substantial sector in the education system in England. It has funding of approximately £8 billion annually and educates close to three million students. Within the sector are 231 FE colleges which provide a range of courses that are typically vocational/skills-based. They vary in scale and scope with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, College Administration, Barriers
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