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Beddie, Francesca – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
The body of research produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) over the lifetime of the 2011-14 National Research Priorities (see figure 1) has exposed many of the problems facing tertiary education and training. With the aim of "understanding the problem", the research has further investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research, Postsecondary Education
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Butt, Rosemary; Lowe, Kaye – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
Research has shown that teaching assistants (TAs) working in mainstream classrooms with special needs students in Australia are being required to perform quite complex tasks such as curriculum modification and differentiation yet they are not required to have any formal qualifications nor training in these tasks. In the United Kingdom, TAs are not…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Focus Groups, Interviews, Learning Modules
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Dymock, Darryl; Billett, Stephen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Governments are currently mobilising their national workforces to compete effectively in a globalised economy where being export-effective and import-competitive are necessary to secure national economic and social goals. Australia is no exception here. Yet, in this country, as in others, similar mobilisations occurred in earlier times, most…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Educational History
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McCarthy, Grace – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
This paper focuses on the education and training of business coaches, specifically at the Masters/graduate level. The paper first reviews the knowledge and skills required of business coaches, comparing the recommendations of professional associations and the literature. Next the paper reviews the approaches to education which are best suited to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Performance Based Assessment, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries
Jackson, Nancy – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. Section 1 looks mostly at male-dominated trades work and at some historical modes of the flexing of political muscle in struggles over the definition of work and skill. It…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Clerical Occupations
Priest, Simon – 1987
Information related to selecting, training, and certifying outdoor leaders for high adventure pursuits, is provided by selected experts from five English-speaking nations (Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States). Patterns of differences and similarities among these nations regarding outdoor leadership components and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Certification, Credentials, Decision Making Skills