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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning in TAFE: Challenges, Issues and Implications for Teachers
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Pritchard, Brenda; Anderson, Damon – International Journal of Training Research, 2009
In recent times, governments have introduced new policies and programs to address the needs of early school leavers. One such initiative is the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), which aims to provide a vocationally-oriented alternative to the academic senior school certificate. Since the implementation of VCAL in the Technical and…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Adult Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Adult Learners and Choice in Further Education and Training Markets: Constructing the Jigsaw Puzzle
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Anderson, Damon – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
With the rise of education and training markets and the rhetoric of lifelong learning, individuals have been reconfigured as learner-consumers and vested with responsibilities as choosers of their own destinies and, by implication, agents of government economic policy. Against this backdrop, this paper reviews empirical research on adult choice in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning