...Christine Bieri Buschor; Esther Forrer; Katharina Maag Merki This article presents some of the initial results of the National Young Adult Survey (YAS), which is currently collecting data on the cross‐curriculum competencies of 14,905 18‐ to 22‐year‐olds in Switzerland. Young adults show...

... Keywords Women, Undergraduates, Surveys The EU statistics office, Eurostat, has produced figures showing the percentage of women students in higher education in Europe by area of study. Women are most strongly represented in the arts (where 67 per cent of students are female), medicine...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Students Surveys Keywords Students, Surveys Some 80 per cent of the 100,000 students selected each year to take part in the EU Erasmus Exchange Programme are the first members of their family to study abroad, according to a survey carried out...

... of the British economy. The study upon which this paper is based involved three complementary research methods. It included an investigative telephone survey during which attitudinal, sectoral and compositional data on training were collected from 2,000 randomly selected businesses from the West Midlands region...

...J.R. Shackleton Introduces the concept of non‐company‐based vocational training in Germany and assesses the impact of vocational training without work experience. Provides primary research results drawn from a representative survey of eastern German trainees in company and non‐company‐based...

...Chris Velde; Tom Cooper; Rod Gerber Reports on the results of a survey with training officers addressing education training needs of Australia’s Adult and Community Education sector. The responses show that training officers believe that this sector is rapidly growing, is important to the economic...

... frameworks for considering these areas of evaluation in more detail. Points out that effective evaluation of all these areas depends on the use of a number of different methods, including interviews, surveys and case studies. In conclusion, highlights some move critical issues about determining the overall...

... support, advice, provide a forum for disseminating ideas and information, and could identify contacts and assist in developing new programmes. Reports briefly on a survey which aimed to collect basic data on mentoring in the UK, and revealed that 95 programmes are currently in operation, with others...

... was adequate or better. Provision for training and development was most commonly provided by the department itself, the institution, or by a software house. Information technology Human resource management Surveys Training United Kingdom The use of information technology (IT) by personnel...