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The Employment and Schooling Dilemma: “Open Campus” Revisited
Sandra Lindsay, Sandy Hobbs, Jim McKechnieThe “Open Campus” scheme piloted in the USA aims to combine employment andschooling to tackle the growing problem of alienated pupils with fewqualifications or skills. Recently it…
Accrediting Prior Learning: Part Two: Student Reflections on an APEL Exercise
John Hamill, John SutherlandResearch was undertaken in 1992 to evaluate the success of the “PortfolioExercise” on which entry into the suite of post‐graduate programmes inpersonnel management at Leeds…
Preparing Business Students for Real‐world Writing
Susan G. ThomasEmployers today complain that college graduates are not sufficientlyprepared, in terms of their writing skills/business communication forwork in the business environment. Looks at…
Transferring Information‐seeking Skills from Education to Employment
Dorothy McLellandDescribes a research project based in Glasgow Caledonian UniversityLibrary. Funded by the Enterprise in Higher Education, the projectsurveyed the library′s instruction programme…
“Training the Trainer” in Australia’s Adult and Community Education Sector: Developing Course Provision
Chris Velde, Tom Cooper, Rod GerberReports on the results of a survey with training officers addressingeducation training needs of Australia’s Adult and Community Educationsector. The responses show that training…
Cultivating Managers of the Future
Howard Fried‐BoothThe concrete experience of pupils and students, together with authenticand authoritative career information, are essential to allow for aneducated career or vocational training…
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