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Markets and Higher Education: A Regime of Truth?
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Bruce, Victoria – Irish Educational Studies, 2006
A discourse of marketisation prevails in recent publications on higher education in Ireland. Higher education is urged to heed the call to the markets and to become the driver of Ireland's future economic success, as Ireland seeks to build a knowledge-based economy. This article questions the dominant marketisation discourse in higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Principles, Educational Psychology
A Community Work Approach in Adult Education.
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Thomson, Cathie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1991
The recommendations of Scotland's 1975 Alexander Report for increasing adult education participation and Tom Lovett's development of a social action model with working class adults in Liverpool and Ireland are used as background to an examination of Scottish projects that use a community work approach to involve nonparticipating adults in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Control, Community Development, Community Organizations
Resources Not Courses: The Role of Non-Formal Community Based Networks in Breathing Life Into Vocational Education and Training in Marginalized Neighborhoods.
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O Fathaigh, Mairtin; Staunton, Denis – 1999
The role of nonformal university adult education (UAE) in revitalizing vocational education and training (VET) in marginalized neighborhoods in Ireland was examined. First, an examination of the barriers affecting participation in VET in marginalized neighborhoods identified the following barriers: situational barriers arising from individual life…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Colleges, Community Involvement