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Universities UK, 2011
This publication highlights the critical role UK universities will continue to play in reviving and sustaining economic growth across the country. Using a range of visual data and statistics, it highlights that the UK's future success depends on developing innovation and the knowledge economy in what is an increasingly competitive global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, College Role, Innovation
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Nicholls, Rachel; Morgan, W. John – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2009
Drawing upon interviews with key stakeholders including policy makers and providers of the flagship welfare reform programme--the New Deal for Young People, this article contributes to analysis and debate through an exploration of skills investment policy and practice in this key UK "welfare to work" programme. It concludes that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Labor Force Development, Welfare Recipients
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Lee, Bill; Cassell, Catherine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: Disparities in learning opportunities endure. This paper aims to investigate whether the learning representative schemes in the UK and New Zealand (NZ) may redress disparate opportunities for learning. Design/methodology/approach: An interview study of UK trade unions' educational officers and an interview study of representatives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Unions, Vocational Education
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McGuire, David; Gubbins, Claire – Human Resource Development Review, 2010
Over recent years, approaches to education and training have become more informal, situated, outcome focused and experiential. Within this context, formal learning now plays a greatly diminished role, being supplanted by activity-based and technologically-based learning. This article, structured in the form of a polemic challenges readers to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Educational Environment, Informal Education, Experiential Learning
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Stewart, Jim; Lee, Monica; Poell, Rob – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2009
This article features the University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD), a voluntary network or an informal association stemming from two separate initiatives in the UK in the late 1980s. The first of these was at national government level and was the introduction of national competence based vocational qualifications (NVQs) following…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Consortia
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Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed; Dainty, Andrew R. J.; Ison, Stephen G.; Hazlehurst, Guy – International Journal of Training and Development, 2008
A levy/grant system exists in the UK construction industry to provide financial support for companies undertaking training activities. With the current UK government skills policy, there is an emphasis on ensuring that training support provided to employers is aimed at enhancing companies' profitability. This paper explores the profitability of…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Grants, Foreign Countries, Training
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Anderson, Valerie; Gilmore, Sarah – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the introduction of a new experience-based learning process in the learning and teaching of human resource development (HRD) within a professionally accredited curriculum in a UK University. Design/methodology/approach: An action enquiry approach is taken, and qualitative data gathered over a full academic year…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Labor Force Development
Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2010
Creating a fertile space for debate and ideas in order to drive innovation in learning and skills is integral to LSN's (Learning and Skills Network's) mission. To achieve this LSN has pioneered a new approach to making learning work from classroom to boardroom--and created the Centre for Innovation in Learning. This new, independent think tank…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Skills, Ability, Learning Experience
Felstead, Alan; Fuller, Alison; Jewson, Nick; Unwin, Lorna – Adults Learning, 2009
All workplaces are sites in which people learn. To state such a fact still seems fairly revolutionary given that many employers and policymakers tend to restrict the meaning of job-related learning to formal episodes of "training" that can be counted and costed. This view is rooted in a wider perception prevalent in society in general…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment, Job Training, Private Sector
McKearney, Miranda – Adults Learning, 2009
The Reading Agency has been backing and building a movement in libraries called reader development. The movement is creating a livelier, more interventionist reading service that's both much more attractive and socially relevant. A focus on reader development is changing the way public libraries work, and transforming people's lives in the…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Adult Education, Reading Motivation
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McKinlay, John W.; Grogan, Shona; Sedakat, Pat; McKinlay, Christopher J. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical, reflective examination of the organisation, delivery and evaluation of a training event conducted by postgraduate students undertaking a module on human resource development. Design/methodology/approach: The paper seeks to offer a triangulation of semi-structured interviews, archival…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
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Guile, David John – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
The paper questions the link that policy-makers assume exists between qualifications and access to employment in the creative and cultural (C&C) sector. It identifies how labour market conditions in the C&C sector undermine this assumption and how the UK's policy formation process inhibits education and training (E&T) actors from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Educational Policy, Labor Market
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Mitchell, Lindsay; Boak, George – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to review the use of competence frameworks in the UK healthcare sector and to explore characteristics of the sector that may influence the success of projects to develop new frameworks. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on project reports and evaluations of practice in a range of recent projects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills
Blakeley, Richard – Adults Learning, 2009
The publication of "Learning Through Life," the main report of the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, has been welcomed across the trade union movement. It offers a useful and useable framework for discussing the learning needs of people through the different stages of life and makes compelling suggestions about how to adjust…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Unions, Barriers, Research Reports
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Sin, I Lin – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This article reports on research exploring the extent to which a group of Malaysian students in a British university expect to secure a competitive edge in the positional race for jobs, income and status. It explores the students' understandings of a good job and success, as well as their perceived chances of fulfilling their aspirations.…
Descriptors: Competition, Private Sector, Global Education, Labor Force Development
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