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A Qualified Success? Credit Frameworks And Lifelong Learning, Ralf St. Clair Jan 2024

A Qualified Success? Credit Frameworks And Lifelong Learning, Ralf St. Clair

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Considers the potential of credit and qualifications frameworks to support learners in gaining formal credit for informal and conformal learning. Makes recommendations to increase learner mobility and enhance access and equity.


Promoting Adult Student Success At Four-Year Higher Education Institutions, Heidi A. Watson-Held May 2015

Promoting Adult Student Success At Four-Year Higher Education Institutions, Heidi A. Watson-Held

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This study surveyed four-year institutions to examine the extent to which different categories of four-year institutions are meeting adult students’ needs and thereby promoting their success.


Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe Jun 2011

Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe

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The responses of 63 adult literacy educators to an online survey suggest that professional development and training to meet the diverse contexts and practices in the field must attend to the embedded inequalities in access to quality literacy education for low income learners, and the marginalization of adult literacy work, which persists even as successive governments hail the importance of literacy education for citizenship and employment.