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Research Monograph: Building Online Participatory Systems: Towards the Community Based Interactive Environmental Decision Support Systems
Yigitcanlar, Tan; Okabe, A - 2002
The importance of broadening community participation in environmental decision-making is widely recognized and lack of participation in this process appears to be a perennial problem. In this context, there have been calls from some academics for the more extensive use of geographic information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437558
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Die Qualitätsprojekte Q2E und OES im Vergleich : eine Analyse der Qualitätshandbücher und des Autonomierahmens beruflicher Schulen in der Nordwestschweiz und in Baden-Württemberg...
Bittorf, Burghard - 2008
Diese Arbeit vergleicht Qualitätshandbücher beruflicher Schulen in der Nordwestschweiz und in Baden-Württemberg, die zur Dokumentation von Qualitätssystemen verwendet werden. Dabei stellt das Qualitätssystem Q2E aus der Schweiz einen Orientierungsrahmen für das baden-württembergische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471604
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Making sense of financial education
Klein, Valerie - 2007
A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438451
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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation
Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011
The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441796
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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises
Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999
Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461161
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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom
Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009
groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464025
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Saudization and Skill Formation for Employment in the Private Sector
Al-Shammari, Serhan Abdullah - 2009
The development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been associated with its growing petroleum industry since late 1930s. This development has created a sudden wealth in the country that shaped its labour market as well as its skill formation systems in the years after. It has also, thanks to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465844
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Darbo rinkos profesinių mokymų sistemos kokybė ir efektyvumas
Bitinas, Linas - 2011
Per pastaruosius porą dešimtmečių Lietuvos darbo rinka išgyveno nemažai sukrėtimų. Atkūrus Lietuvos nepriklausomybę buvo pereita prie rinkos ekonomikos, todėl teko reorganizuoti visą profesinių mokymų sistemą. Iki tol nusistovėjusi sistema, kuri naudojo pigią darbo jėgą buvo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478471
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The training of managers in the UK licensed trade: changing career structures to meet new customer requirements
Pratten, John D. - 2003
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Development and Learning in Organizations: an international journal, published by and copyright Emerald Publishing Group Limited.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455048
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Challenges to implementing sectoral workforce programs and proposed changes for this model
Jemison, David B. (contributor); Stolp, Chandler (contributor) - 2011
The focus of this professional report is sectoral workforce development programs. Sectoral programs represent a fairly recent innovation in workforce development. Rather than train a low-skilled worker for low-skill job with low pay, sectoral programs train workers for higher-skill jobs that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429421