Download or read book APL Developing more flexible colleges written by Michael Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keystones for provision in the new era of Further Education will be flexibility of response, open access, equality of opportunity, and valuing and accrediting alternative ways of learning - all linked together within the concepts of providing life-long learning opportunities. The provision of APL, along with the support services needed to ensure its success, can be used as the `acid test' of whether a college is truly open and accessible to a variety of learners. Written by an experienced manager, this book offers invaluable advice for other managers and senior staff engaged in transforming their colleges to meet students' needs.
Download or read book Managing Further Education written by Jacky Lumby and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incorporation of the further education sector in 1993 was followed by a period of extreme turbulence. Colleges plunged into the complex task of managing huge organizations while under pressure from cuts in funding and a steady expansion in the number and range of students. While financial scandals may have attracted attention, the success of the further education sector in continuing to provide a vital educational service for millions of people has been less recognized. Despite the significant contribution of the sector to education and training, practitioners struggle to find adequate research evidence on which to base reflection and practice. They need material relevant to the specific situation of managers working w
Download or read book Managing People in Education written by Tony Bush and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Aims to enhance management practice in education by presenting research findings and theory from a wide range of contributors′ - Skills and Enterprise Update ′This is indeed a book which could be useful to a much larger readership than the normal closed circle of those working in education′ - Managing Schools Today The book presents relevant research and theory in order to enhance management practice in education. The editors′ intention is to articulate good practice on the basis of evidence in educational settings. The ideas presented here are derived from international research and practice and apply to all phases of education, with the emphasis on applying research findings to improve practice in schools and colleges.
Download or read book Curriculum Change in Secondary Schools 1957 2004 written by Norman Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention from central government. Following the story of one secondary school between 1957 and 2004, Norman Evans looks at: * the school before and after the introduction of the National Curriculum * the changing role of LEAs and governors * the characteristics since 1992 of school inspections responsible for policing the operation of the national tests * predictions of results and examination results * nationally set targets * compliance with detailed prescription of school curricula. This is the back-story of today's educational climate, as seen through the eyes of seven successive head teachers and long-serving assistant staff who worked at the school during this momentous forty-year period. How did the changes affect what they sought to do as professionals? Where have these changes taken us, in terms of what happens in classrooms and what happens in the school as a whole? And what can be learned from the development of the curriculum over this time to inform future practice?
Download or read book Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training written by Malcolm Tight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training. All those involved in the broad field of adult education and training will come into contact with many specialist ideas or concepts. It is often assumed of students that they already have a general understanding of these concepts, their meanings, applicability and inter-relationships. This is not always the case. This book examines in detail over forty of these key concepts, ranging from community education and experiential learning to competence and access. It presents a clear, analytical discussion in jargon-free language. It is, therefore, indispensable to all students and practitioners of adult education and training.
Download or read book The Power of Technology for Learning written by Noah P. Barsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s dynamic global business environment where knowledge is a main asset and learning becomes the most important process, Business Education needs to employ the right practices to develop future leaders. Businesses require graduates that become true experts. But can business schools indeed create learning experiences that address the needs of the global marketplace? Can they teach students to build learning organizations? The articles in this volume detail successful approaches developed by business educators and researchers. The approaches have been implemented to solve real problems and to provide students with the ethical and analytical abilities they will need to both compete and contribute to the betterment of others. The thematic part of this volume focuses on the potential of interactive on-line activities to promote business and economics education. They demonstrate the benefits that learning technologies can bring and show how to overcome potential problem issues.
Download or read book How to Assess the Vocational Curriculum written by Kathryn Ecclestone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case studies from schools and colleges, this book outlines different forms of assessment, highlights their purposes, and provides practical guidelines to their implementation.
Download or read book Making Sense of Lifelong Learning written by Norman Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL? What are the motives of institutions, employers and the Government in promoting LLL? And, who says what is and what is not LLL? In the context of the previous government attempts to enhance the economic strength of the country, the author also makes suggestions as to what might be done to encourage wider participation in LLL, particularly with regard to the increasing economic and social gaps in today's society. The considerable demographic changes to the workplace have affected the entire population, and yet employers, the government and the individual all have very different expectations from LLL. It is this previously unchallenged 'mismatch' that is one of the central themes of the book.
Download or read book Introducing APEL written by Maggie Challis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that learning accumulates and exists outside an education or training environment cannot be disputed. Yet traditionally, it is only institutional, certificated learning that carries any status. Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning systems seek to give positive credit for all learning, by placing it within a recognised accreditation framework. In the light of recent legislation, APEL systems offer the key towards more flexible and open delivery systems for futher education. Maggie Challis offers a detailed, practical introduction to the skills and processes of implementing an APEL system, exploring the seven key stages through which learners progress: * initial counselling * recognising and identifying skills * relating these skills to an agreed set of outcomes * gathering evidence of these skills * documentation of the evidence * assessment of the evidence * accreditation Detailed guidance is provided on setting up and monitoring services and tutors and managers alike will find advice on identifying appropriate learning programmes for students; access to higher education; redundancy counselling; and the transfer of professional qualifications gained overseas. Most importantly, Maggie Challis shows the potential for APEL across a wide range of learning contexts, in all areas of education and training.
Download or read book Unesco Adult Education Information Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching and Learning in Further Education written by Prue Huddleston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Learning to Teach written by Julian Stern and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Higher Education Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Practice Accreditation of Prior Learning written by Lovemore Nyatanga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with a discussion of the origins of Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), this text proceeds to look at the variety of models through which candidates are able to offer testimony of their prior learning. It explores the theoretical principles first, then illustrates with case studies.
Download or read book South African Journal of Higher Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bulletin of Bibliography on Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Further Education Curriculum in England written by Anna Frankel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England, an introduction A brief, accessible account to the further education curriculum: its scope, content, aims, students, funders, providers, accrediting bodies, modes of attendance, learning methods, and outcomes.
