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Kirk, Jenny; Kirk, Gordon – 2002
Stage 2 of an evaluation assessed the impact of changes to the United Kingdom's national funding rules to include 3- and 6-hour information and communications technology (ICT) courses. Fieldwork consisted of a questionnaire to colleges, postal survey of learners, visits to colleges, and analysis of the national student database for 2000-2001.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Course Evaluation, Developed Nations
Klus, John P.; Jones, Judy A. – 1978
A study was done to provide baseline data on the continuing education opportunities that colleges, universities, and professional societies offer engineers and scientists and to determine how programs and courses are developed. Although degree credit courses were included, the focus was on noncredit education designed to increase or update…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Correspondence Study, Credit Courses
Daugherty, Mabel H. – 1981
A project was undertaken to plan a consumer education program and delivery system for elderly persons in the six-county Bootheel area of Southeast Missouri. Included among the project's activities were the following: (1) assessing the needs and qualifications for consumer education programs for the elderly through a literature search and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development
Kirk, Gordon; Kirk, Jenny; Fletcher, Mick; Vorhaus, John – 2001
As a result of new adult education funding arrangements announced by the Further Education Funding Council for England in Spring 2000, short courses of 3 or 6 hours duration were developed that concentrated on basic skills, information and communications technology (ICT), and general lifelong learning subjects. Courses were designed as minicourses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
Bittner, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Of the liberal movements dominating the thought of the world today, the greatest of all is the sweep of education. No phrase or dissertation can compass the entire scope or catch all the essential elements of the newer education that is shaping itself. But everywhere one direction is apparent: The trend of education is toward the people in mass…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Extension Education, Agricultural Colleges
Foster, Emery M.; Badger, Henry G.; Carr, Margaret J. S.; Choate, Blanche K.; Farr, Maude; Smith, Rose M.; Kelly, Frederick J.; Greenleaf, Walter J. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
The publication each 2 years by the Office of Education of a statistical report dealing with the institutions of higher education leads an occasional reader to a misconception of the Federal Government's relation to higher education. There is no national system of higher education in this country. Except for the 69 land-grant colleges and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, School Statistics
Farr, Maude – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
This is the annual statistical report of land-grant colleges and universities prepared in accordance with the responsibilities of the U. S. Office of Education under the Second Morrill Act, The Nelson Amendment, and Title II of the Bankhead-Jones Act. It is published separately from the "Biennial Survey of Education." In general, there…
Descriptors: Educational History, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation, National Surveys
Farr, Maude – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1948
This is the complete report of 69 land-grant institutions for the year which ended June 30th, 1947. Too few of the institutions had sent reports by October 15th to make it possible, as has been the practice in previous years, to prepare a preliminary report for distribution at the November meeting of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Veterans, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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