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Peer reviewedArmstrong, Christopher – History and Social Science Teacher, 1979
Reviews Canadian business history books published since 1972 as well as reprints of useful older works. Topics dealt with are the fish, timber, and wheat industry, transportation, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, Canadian economy during World War I, the development of natural resources, and the lives of the rich and the powerful. (KC)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Biographies, Business, Economics
Download full textBritish Columbia Univ., Vancouver. – 1966
IN THIS 1966 SEMINAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE NATURE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION WAS DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF COMPANY PROGRAMS AND SUBSIDIZED PART TIME GRADUATE STUDY. PAST EXPERIENCES IN CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR ENGINEERS BY ENGINEERING SOCIETIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA WERE REVIEWED, AND NEW PROGRAMS FOR ENGINEERS IN…
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Needs, Engineers, Graduate Study
Council of Forest Industries (British Columbia). – 1991
A preliminary study of job-related communications skills in British Columbia sawmills investigated the extent of agreement between reading grade levels of written workplace materials and reading comprehension levels of employees expected to read them. In 1990, 227 employees in 8 sawmills were interviewed with a 52-item structured interview, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Educational Needs
Lorimer, Rowland M. – 1984
The Canadian cultural focus of contemporary education in Canada is examined, with particular emphasis on language arts, literature, and social studies. Conclusions of the first two chapters are that language arts instructional materials frequently present powerful American and British (and only occasionally Canadian) themes; many reading series,…
Descriptors: Canadian Literature, Comparative Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Needs
Eastfield Coll., Mesquite, TX. – 1995
Eastfield Community College (ECC) of Texas' Dallas Community College District obtained funding to examine the current skill standards for the job training of telecommunication manufacturing production specialists. Together with the firm Partners in Profound Knowledge (PPK), ECC documented and compared the skill standards required for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development
Lewe, Glenda – 1992
A basic skills needs assessment developed a picture of the basic skills levels and needs of the construction industry in British Columbia and the Yukon. The three parts of the assessment were interviews with business managers and managers of other programs provided through joint labor/management initiatives, a questionnaire administered to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Building Trades, Construction Industry, Educational Needs
