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Verian – UK Department for Education, 2024
The Further Education (FE) sector has documented difficulties with recruitment and retention of teaching staff, as many FE colleges report having 'hard-to-fill' vacancies and high levels of churn amongst new starters. Taking Teaching Further (TTF) is a programme designed to address these issues by providing support for FE providers to recruit and…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Continuing Education, Incentives, Program Effectiveness
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Paul Tully – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The Further Education and Training (FET) sector is being positioned as a centrepiece of the government's post-pandemic recovery. However, issues of capacity and staff churn are threatening the potential success of this strategy. Unfortunately, there has been almost no strategic analysis of teacher churn in the English FET system or of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Adult Education, Teacher Education
Kilgore, Wendy – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2023
This report examines how higher education institutions define and describe undergraduate-adult learners, why it matters, and explores creating a common definition for the undergraduate-adult learner. The survey upon which this report was based was conducted to benchmark U.S. higher education and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Barriers, Student Recruitment
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Michael T. Miller – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2024
Much is unknown about those who do not finish high school and there is a need to understand who enters and completes alternative high school completion programs, such as the HiSet (High School Equivalency Test), GED (General Education Development Test), or growing number of state sponsored high school equivalency programs. The purpose for…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, Student Recruitment, Administrator Attitudes
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Petra A. Robinson; Maja Stojanovic – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an analysis of course titles and descriptions which are part of core adult education university curricula in the United States. The focus of the analysis was on understanding how well these adult education programs, and their curricula, address the need for developing critical literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Literacy, Diversity, Inclusion
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Bladh, Daniel – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
Political parties are widely recognised as indispensable actors in democratic systems. One way to illustrate the actions and role of political parties is to explicate various party functions that may be carried out in a political system. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between the organisation of party education and five…
Descriptors: Politics, Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Nonformal Education
Rosalind Barnes Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the number of traditional-aged students steadily declines in the United States, colleges and universities must seek to attract and enroll the large number of adults who have some college but no degree. This research sought to understand how one southern mid-sized institution recruited and enrolled a consistent number of adult learners over…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Nontraditional Students, Student Recruitment, Adult Students
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Miller, Michael T.; Deggs, David M.; Hunt, Valerie H.; Robterson, Lona J.; Embry, Callie – Adult Learning, 2023
African American men have among the worst high school completion rates of any population in the United States. The consequences of dropping out of school are serious and include high levels of unemployment and incarceration. Attempts at recruiting these men to return to complete a high school credential have not been broadly successful, and the…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Program Effectiveness, African Americans, Males
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Bullock, Jack; Henry, Gareth – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
Over the course of the previous two decades, successive governments have attempted to attract students from diverse backgrounds as part of an overarching ambition to widen participation in Higher Education (HE). As part of those efforts, there has been a proliferation of Further Education Colleges (FECs) utilised to meet those ends. In 2021,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
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Andrews, Hans A. – Community College Enterprise, 2023
Recent years have seen a major decline in community college enrollments across the country. Although the market to attract secondary school students contains many pathways, the overall marketplace is very competitive as most schools are competing for the same body of students. The adult market is the largest and most neglected group of potential…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, School Holding Power, Community College Students, Adult Students
Hicks, Nytasia; Millar, Roberto J.; Girling, Laura M.; Cummins, Phyllis A.; Yamashita, Takashi – Grantee Submission, 2021
There is an increasing need for cross-cultural qualitative studies in an era of globalization. A focus group of five researchers, who were involved in a large international research project, identified effective strategies and challenges associated with five key domains of qualitative research with key informants: identification, recruitment,…
Descriptors: Interviews, Qualitative Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Identification
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Scott Amundsen – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Institutions are aggressively recruiting adult learners and developing adult degree completion programs. This is a hyper-competitive market. Many institutions lack experience working with this population. This paper outlines proven strength-based enrollment management strategies to instill confidence and provide student support for adult learners.…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, School Holding Power, Electronic Learning, Adult Students
Eric Stetler – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Driven by a shifting landscape and increased competition for students, institutions of higher education (IHE) are working to differentiate themselves to consumers in order to attract new students. These differentiation efforts have increasingly focused on the adult, non-traditional student demographic. As IHEs strive to include claims of quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Credibility, Reputation
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Noyes, Andrew; Dalby, Diane; Lavis, Yvonna – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Improving mathematical skills is a priority in England, and a series of policy levers and government change projects have focused on improving mathematical outcomes in further education (FE) in recent years. Yet little is known about the mathematics teacher workforce that supports these students on vocational and technical programmes. This paper…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Adult Education, Colleges, Mathematics Teachers
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Ye, Rebecca; Chudnovskaya, Margarita; Nylander, Erik – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
It is well established that participation in formal adult education varies by individual background characteristics. However, less attention has been paid to examining inequality in participation as a consequence of policy changes, such as educational expansion. This paper examines the process of tremendous expansion in Swedish Higher Vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Adult Vocational Education, Higher Education
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