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Hargraves, Neil Kevin – History of Education, 2010
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's only adult residential college, was founded in the 1930s by Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian. This paper traces the debates concerning the college and the rationale for adult residential education until the 1950s, focusing on the difficulties that Newbattle faced in establishing itself as a central part of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development
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American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
Examines residential school placement patterns for students from deaf- and hearing-parented families, provides directory listings of U.S. and Canadian schools and programs for children with deafness or hearing impairments, and provides a list of postsecondary programs with supportive services specifically for individuals with deafness. (CR)
Descriptors: Colleges, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Lieven, Mike – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
The paper compares institutional, legal, and political structures of adult residential colleges in Britain and Denmark and concludes that there are inadequate institutional safeguards in Britain, allowing the state to dominate nominally independent institutions. Danish folk high schools enjoy institutional safeguards against state power but suffer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
Volume 2 begins with Chapter 28 and the coeducation of the sexes in the United States. Other chapters cover: (1) the present educational movement in the Philippine Island by Fred W. Atkinson, general superintendent of public instruction in the Philippines; (2) list of foreign universities and other institutions of higher education; (3) general…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Colleges, Foreign Countries, Animals