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Muhlenberg, Elisabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Companies and schools in different types of market economies face a dilemma. Public schools are performing poorly at a time when companies need better skilled employees to compete globally. The trend toward greater participation of companies in the public schools is a consequence of this dilemma. It poses the question: "What are the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Citizenship, Free Enterprise System, Educational Change
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Seay, Jeffrey R.; Eden, Mario R. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2008
This contribution will address the challenges of implementing a collaborative research project between industry and academia as part of an industrial Ph.D. dissertation. The research project is a collaboration between Evonik Degussa, Auburn University, and the University of South Alabama. This work will outline the challenges of integrating all…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Projects, Industry, Foreign Countries
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Le Deist, Francoise – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyse the conceptual approaches to competence and practice in competence management in France. Design/methodology/approach: Extensive literature review, discussion with academic experts in the French competence network of AGRH and interviews concerning developments following the 2003 national agreement…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competence
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Brockmann, Michaela; Clarke, Linda; Winch, Christopher – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: Though the notion of competence is common terminology in European VET policy at national and supra-national level, understandings vary widely, both across countries and within. The particular conceptions of competence adopted in the EQF are themselves problematic and the framework allows for a variety of interpretations. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competence
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Benton, Helen; Binder, Mario; Egel-Hess, Wolfgang – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2007
Despite the widespread discussion of organisational learning, there is little scholarly contribution on promoting learning through the practical application of management tools. This is especially true in a complex internal supply chain context of an organisation. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring and analysing the capability of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Benchmarking, Supply and Demand
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Bremer, Rainer – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: This article aims to take up a mirror image-oriented position of the EQF and the announced ECVET system. It seeks to be concerned with the effects that the EQF transformation process into the respective NQF might have on the underlying systems of vocational education and training. Design/methodology/approach: A comparison is drawn between…
Descriptors: Industry, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Comparative Education
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Schneider, Tassilo – Journal of Film and Video, 1995
Discusses Joe Hembus's "Western-Lexikon," a German encyclopedia of the western, and one particular entry: "Der Schatz im Silbersee," or "Treasure of Silver Lake," a uniquely German western adapted from a story by Karl May. Explores the impact that this film had on the European--and eventually, American--filmmaking…
Descriptors: Film Criticism, Film Industry, Foreign Countries
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Lim, Kim-Hui,; Har, Wai-Mun – International Education Studies, 2008
The lack of academic and thinking culture is getting more worried and becomes a major challenge to our academia society this 21st century. Few directions that move academia from "cogito ergo sum" to "consumo ergo sum" are actually leading us to "the end of academia". Those directions are: (1) the death of dialectic;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Commercialization, Educational Quality
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Henning, Klaus; Bornefeld, Gero; Brall, Stefan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
This paper offers a multi-perspective view on engineering education at RWTH Aachen University: curriculum design, examples of newly developed teaching methods for engineering curricula, and teaching competencies and teacher qualification. It is based on the theories of student-centred learning, project learning, social skills, etc., but the paper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Curriculum Design, Industry
CEDEFOP Flash, 1993
Two pilot projects on environmental profiles in the chemical and metal industries and in the public sector were conducted in four countries. Two aspects were studied: job requirements in selected enterprises and departments of the civil service and the occupational competencies of the staff carrying out these tasks. Studies on the chemical and…
Descriptors: Chemical Industry, Comparative Analysis, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
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Stankus, Tony – Science & Technology Libraries, 1996
Discusses scientific journals in East and West Germany before and after reunification. Topics include scientific research in university and engineering schools, industrial research labs, and industrial firms; publication patterns; market share of journal articles; competition with American journals; and German versus English language. (LRW)
Descriptors: Competition, Engineering, English, Foreign Countries
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Kunoff, Hugo – Library Quarterly, 1975
Systematic documentation projects, now in progress, will provide access to the unpublished emigre material located in German and foreign archives. (Author)
Descriptors: Archives, Authors, Immigrants, Libraries
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Posner, Marcia W.; And Others – Judaica Librarianship, 1993
Includes nine papers from the First International Symposium on Jewish Children's Literature. Highlights include a survey and bibliography of Jewish children's literature available in 24 countries; values in Jewish children's literature; literature in the United States, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, and Israel; and German publishers.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Conferences, Foreign Countries, Judaism
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Nakajima, Nina; Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
The German packaging ordinance is an example of legislated extended producer responsibility (also known as product take-back). Consumers can leave packaging with retailers, and packagers are required to pay for their recycling and disposal. It can be considered to be successful in reducing waste, spurring the redesign of packaging to be more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legislation, Marketing, Sustainable Development
German Federal Inst. for Vocational Training Affairs, Berlin (Germany). – 1996
This publication provides information on occupations in industrial metalworking in the Federal Republic of Germany. Section I contains the German vocational training regulations for these occupations, including an overview of training, examinations, reorganization of the industrial metalworking trades, and characteristic features of the new…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Foundries, Industrial Education
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