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Zapata, Juliana; Pont, Beatriz; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Albiser, Etienne; Yee, Hyo Jeong; Skalde, Annette; Fraccola, Sylvain – OECD Publishing, 2014
This policy profile on education in the Netherlands is part of the new Education Policy Outlook series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Building on the substantial comparative and sectorial policy knowledge base available…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Equal Education
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Hannan, Damian; And Others – European Journal of Education, 1995
An analysis of unemployment rates, wages, and policy initiatives for school "early leavers" in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom suggests that early withdrawal from school represents a substantial, transnational problem attributable to basic policy problems. It is noted that no policy initiatives directly address…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Educational Policy, Employment Patterns
1999
This document contains four symposium papers on workplace learning issues. "The Changing Role of Training Consultants in Organizing Work-related Learning" (Rob F. Poell, Geoff E. Chivers) draws on interviews with training consultants in 19 different organizations to describe how their role is changing in response to the trend toward…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Consultants
2002
This document contains three papers from a symposium on the future of human resource development (HRD) and trends in HRD. "Searching for the Future of Human Resource Development" (Wendy E.A. Ruona, Susan A. Lynham, Tom Chermack) reports on a survey of 55 HRD and HRD-related practitioners and academics that examined trends in the HRD…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Competence, Developed Nations
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on action learning that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Searching for Meaning in Complex Action Learning Data: What Environments, Acts, and Words Reveal" (Verna J. Willis) analyzes complex action learning documents produced as course…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Case Studies
2001
This document contains three papers on informal learning and human resource development. "Workplace Learning Reviewed: Confronting the Rhetoric with Empirical Research" (Rob F. Poell, Ferd J. Van der Krogt) discusses the considerable discrepancy between theory on workplace learning and actual workplace learning-related developments in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Adult Learning, Case Studies
2001
This document contains three papers on global knowledge transfer issues and human resource development (HRD). "Indigenizing Knowledge Transfer" (Gary N. McLean) explores examples of HRD in which ethnocentric perspectives predominate and argues that, unless a HRD develops a global perspective, efforts to transfer knowledge within academia…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis