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Stephen Richard Billett; Anthony Leow; Anh Hai Le – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2024
This book elaborates on the project of continuing education and training (CET), its purposes, practices and prospects for future models and approaches. As such, it also seeks to elaborate the needs for a means by which this important educational sector can achieve its goals both now, and in the near future. Often seen as a supplementary or…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Capacity Building
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Beinicke, Andrea; Kyndt, Eva – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
The present study aimed at contributing to the science-practice gap regarding the application of evidence-based actions for maximising training effectiveness in corporate practice. Training and development professionals employed at companies from diverse branches of industry and among the best employers in Germany were assessed cross-sectionally…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Electronic Learning, Workplace Learning, Transfer of Training
Robison, David – 1978
This book contains fifty-three case studies covering a wide variety of private-sector activities and public-private partnerships designed to increase training and employment opportunities for the hard-to-employ and speed the transition of the unemployed from government support and subsidized jobs to permanent private employment. Compiled from a…
Descriptors: Business, Case Studies, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Scott, Frances G.; And Others – 1979
A five-year study was undertaken to investigate the relative effectiveness of pre-retirement education (PRE) programs. Project staff identified for study three methodologies (the lecture series, the discussion group, and the "facilitated interaction" model) and four contexts for sponsor-settings (the employer, the education, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Organizations, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Oliveira, Victor J.; Kuehn, John A. – 1987
Service industries, some manufacturing, and a concentration of retirees can provide a strong economic base in a rural area. Rapid growth of service businesses, especially wholesale and retail firms and other businesses related to tourism and recreation, attracted job-seekers to a 10-county area in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Employers
Gose, Frank J. – 1979
A study of the educational needs to be met by the Verde Campus of Yavapai College (YC) involved surveying seven populations. Responses were returned by 88 non-retired community residents, 96 retired members of the community, 191 members of the business sector, 240 current students, 208 former students, 19 faculty members, and 261 high school…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, College Faculty, Community Characteristics