... Adult education Workplace learning Europe However, while it is easy to demonstrate the numerical significance of formal adult education, the social realities behind the numbers are more difficult to interpret. Taken overall, formal adult education has been insufficiently studied – although...

.... Henrik Kock can be contacted at: henrik.kock@liu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Competences Europe Over the last decade we have seen an increasing interest in learning and competence development in organizations...

... learning Europe The data for this paper comes from the Cardiff Steel Research Programme [1] . The principal focus of the research is to study the processes of employment restructuring, the re‐composition of steel workforces, skills formation and workplace learning. The research programme...

.../approach Open and distance learning (ODL) has been developing in Europe, due to new tools in information technology but the way in which it is carried out varies from country to country. Up until now, the focus has usually been to study technical standards although it is now more beneficial to carry out...

... 2005 Economic cooperation Product development Learning Automotive industry Europe To meet increasing market demands and shorten the time‐to‐market, companies use multidisciplinary teams in NPD projects (Griffin, 1997a ; Valkenburg, 2000). Actors from different departments are put...

...Pierre Stolz Discusses introduction and progress of EAPs in Europe. Makes the case for generating support from management, unions and health professionals and outlines approach to doing this. Provides strategy and tactics for developing EAPs in Europe. Key factors are: a rallying cause...