Innovation is essential for the education sector. The ways in which curriculum decision making is organised reflects different implicit approaches on how educational systems pertain to promote innovation in education. Curriculum holds an outstanding place when seeking to promote innovation in education, as it reflects the vision for education by…

Review of technology-education curricula in the United Kingdom, Alberta, British Columbia, and Japan shows the following: (1) systematic introduction of technology education is a worldwide trend; (2) the UK emphasizes design and technology; (3) Alberta emphasizes vocational aspects; and (4) in Japan, subject and process are not articulated from…

This paper looks at the demographic distribution of campus and distance students of an MA TEFL/TESL course offered by a British University. An examination of the mother tongue of all students between 1994 and 2003 shows that non-native speakers on campus have increased from 60% to 90%. At the same time, native speaker campus students have…