The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General has pumped the brakes on competency-based education, partially due to concerns about the level of interaction between instructors and ...

WASHINGTON -- The academy’s primary liberal education group is working to redesign general education pathways, which it says are becoming obsolete and need to be better grounded in learning outcomes, ...

ACT Local Government Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today it appears that `general competence' has arrived at the Auckland City Council - though in a form unintended by this Government. "Sandra Lee is ...

CURRICULUM development process usually begins with knowing the needs (through situation analysis) of the people for whom the curriculum would be developed. Then decision is made on the national/state ...

It is interesting to note that the Conservatives use the expression ‘general power of competence’ - not a ‘power of general competence’ Much has been said and written about the need for a power of ...

Local government lawyers are to draft a new ‘power of general competence’ to give local authorities greater freedom to act independently of central government to improve the economic, social and ...

Last week when I wrote about “the death of classroom training”, I didn’t expect the article to be very well received. However, it prompted many people to argue that they still think classroom training ...

There is no doubt that the London Authorities Mutual Limited insurance case sent shock waves across local authorities and dented council confidence There is no doubt that the London Authorities Mutual ...