Industrial or Vocational Training

This detailed reference work describes the vocational training systems available in EC member states. It deals with the vocational qualification sy...

Action learning is a method of learning that takes place in a group - of colleagues or students. It is widely used in a wide number of educational ...

This practical guide offers advice to teachers running GNVQ courses. Using case studies, the author identifies the key implementation issues and su...

Conventional apprenticeships and older methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers - governments, companies and colle...

Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you foc...

Accounting sustainably involves accounting for and to the natural environment, and accounting for and to society, including groups currently oppres...

Supplies the educational or vocational teacher with advice on the effective and successful running of a training group. The author uses a number of...

Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low...

This is the first book to draw together the evidence on the 'case' for skills and to examine the policies appropriate to achieving 'skills for all'...

First published in 1991. The constant changes in both vocational education and training (VET) policy and practice since the early 1970s have been w...

First Published in 1996. The transition from school to work has always been a crucial time in the lives of young people. How and when this transiti...

Graduate Students at Work highlights the expertise and experiences of graduate students to demonstrate what graduate study entails, what it makes p...

This is a review of the chaotic provision that exists in the UK regarding education and training for courses for the 14-19 age-group. The authors s...

Henry Harrisse was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1850s. A man of keen intelligence, thirst for knowledge...

This volume recounts the development of the graduate school; describes the university's facilities for the promotion of research and publication--i...

Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to...

Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to...

This book is designed to help the teacher to program informal activity in the classroom. Specific directions are given for establishing centers of ...

What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning? What pathways of professionalisation are available to t...

This volume is of great practical value for it is a series of case studies of communities that have made the change-over from biracial public schoo...

This book discusses the role of knowledge in European transformation under a regional perspective. Starting out with a critical appraisal of ‘knowl...

Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-...

The story of public education in North Carolina is told by one who himself performed yeoman service in the cause. The author is inspired with an un...

Noble's book is a chronicle of the sixty-three year history of the School of Pharmacy, 1897-1960. It is also a record of earlier sporadic attempts ...