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Download full textCarey, James T. – 1961
This report summarizes information from an extensive study of university adult education conducted through questionnaires sent to the Association of University Evening Colleges, National University Extension Association institutions, and a sample of liberal arts colleges, plus interviews with various officials in 18 colleges and universities.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Characteristics, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Csoma, Gyula; And Others – 1968
Beginning with a brief survey of the national system, this work covers provisions since 1945 for adult education in Hungary. Educational objectives and other theoretical aspects of adult education in Hungarian society are described, together with the eight year elementary program, technical and vocational adult schools, general and professional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Curriculum, Educational Objectives
Carpenter, Reigh W. – 1968
The status of Adult Education programs is discussed in this speech by the Superintendent of Schools in Amsterdam, New York. A state-wide curriculum is proposed which includes evening high school, vocational-occupational programs, civic programs, job retraining, and recreational programs. The need for involving the community in continuing education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Ministry of Education, Cairo (United Arab Republic). – 1968
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a proposed project to further the education of those who leave elementary school. The document is divided into three parts: (1) a project for the further education of pupils who have completed the elementary grades; (2) curricula of work experience activities to be…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agricultural Education, Business Education, Continuation Education
Peer reviewedWorthy, Ward – Chemical and Engineering News, 1988
Explains ways three chemists use college courses, evening lectures, and television and radio programs to educate the public about the importance of chemistry. Indicates that exposure to the fundamentals of chemistry in the early grades may have a significant effect on changing the public's attitudes toward chemistry. (RT)
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Chemistry, College Science
O'Leary, Iris Prouty – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This bulletin deals with the teaching of cooking for home-making purposes in the day and evening classes of the vocational school. Throughout the bulletin "vocational school" will be used as a term which includes both industrial schools and household-arts schools. Vocational schools include all agricultural, industrial, commercial, and…
Descriptors: Females, Evening Programs, Vocational Schools, Cooking Instruction
Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2005
In the shadow of a Manhattan housing project, Public School 33 is coming back to life. A new principal has brought a wave of optimism, test scores are way up, and middle-class families who used to avoid the school are enrolling their children. In Brooklyn, teenagers who might have dropped out of school are getting diplomas through a special…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Tests, Criticism
Bottomley, Wayne N.; And Others – 1982
Student interest in increased evening courses at Daytona Beach Campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) was investigated. The proportion of students employed while attending ERAU and student attitudes concerning evening or Saturday courses were also determined. Of the 3,312 students preregistered for fall 1982, 862 completed a…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Aviation Technology, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education
Lee, Roberta; And Others – 1978
Indicators of quality in the evening, weekend, and outreach programs administered by the Community Services Program are assessed in this report. Part One examines extensive demographic data for the three-county district in terms of population, economic, and educational characteristics. Part Two displays course offerings by geographical location…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Course Content, Demography
PDF pending restorationMoen, Norman W., Ed. – 1980
Educational opportunities provided by the General College of the University of Minnesota are described. Among the developments is outreach to working adults through evening and off-campus courses. Special career offerings include training in law enforcement to meet statewide police licensing standards as well as to provide a specific academic…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Career Education, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1966
EIGHTEEN COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN WASHINGTON STATE FUNDED UNDER TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT ARE BRIEFLY REVIEWED IN THIS REPORT. TO A GREAT EXTENT THESE PROGRAMS (MOSTLY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS) PROVIDE REMEDIAL WORK IN READING, WRITING, AND ORAL COMMUNICATION. MANY ARE ALSO CONCERNED WITH…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Dropouts, Elementary Schools
Carters, Alexander N., Comp. – 1980
This is the eighth of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
McDonald, Malcolm G. – 1979
An adult evening education program called SPHERE (Spokane Higher Education Regional Enrichment), which is a consortium of seven private and public institutions of higher learning, illustrates much on the subject of external communication linkage as it applies to schools. External and internal communications problems between member schools are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Articulation (Education)
Daigneault, George H. – 1963
A study was made of the university evening college decision-making role of resident departmental chairmen at 12 universities (four publicly supported, two Roman Catholic, six private nonsectarian) in the Midwest and East. Liberal arts department chairmen, liberal arts deans, and evening deans were interviewed. In all but two institutions, evening…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitudes, College Faculty, Day Programs
King, Jane – 1967
Nonformal adult education in Tanzania includes literacy classes, rural extension, community development, training within industry (TWI), civil service inservice training courses, correspondence and evening courses, residential adult education (Kivukoni College,) and women's groups other than literacy classes. Provisions for nonformal education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attendance, Community Development, Correspondence Study
