ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Education Reform</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content=FrontPage.Editor.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE type=text/css></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY background=images/backgrd.gif> <TABLE height=432 width="101%" border=0 > <TBODY> <TR border="0" > <TD width="13%" height=51 border="0" ><A href="http://members.shaw.ca/rfaris"><IMG height=50 src="images/Home.gif" width=150 border=0></A></TD> <TD vAlign=top width="87%" height=606 rowSpan=6 border="0" > <H4 align=center><FONT face="Benguiat Bk BT" color=#33cc33 size=6><B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Education Reform</B></FONT></H4> <P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" align=right></P> <DIV align=right> <TABLE width="90%" border=0 > <TBODY> <TR border="0" > <TD width="100%" border="0" ><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Since the early 90's Ron has been monitoring aspects of the reform of education and training systems in selected countries: chiefly those with a shared British tradition, such as New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, England &amp; Wales and the United States.</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV align=right> <TABLE height=483 width=745 border=0 > <TBODY> <TR border="0" > <TD width=735 height=477 border="0" > <P align=center><FONT face="Benguiat Bk BT" color=#33cc33 size=3><B><BR>Selected Reports and Publications:</B></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1994</FONT><A href="http://www.aett.gov.bc.ca/educ-systems/5nations/5toc.htm"><FONT face=Verdana size=2> Major Reforms in Training Systems in Five Countries: A Review of Reforms in Scotland, England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States</FONT></A></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1995 </FONT><A href="docs/1995Nations.pdf">Major Reforms in Training Systems in Three Countries: An Update of Selected Reforms from 1994-95 in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States</A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <IMG height=19 src="images/pdf.gif" width=24></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1997 </FONT><A href="docs/1997LearningNation.pdf"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Towards a Learning Nation: A View of Reform of UK Education &amp; Training</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <IMG height=19 src="images/pdf.gif" width=24></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1998 March, <I>Learning Quarterly</I>, Vol 2 Is 2, </FONT><A href="docs/work.htm"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Learning and Working in a Knowledge-Based Economy: A Necessary Synergy</FONT></A></P> <P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1999 </FONT><A href="docs/UK-STUDY.pdf"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>From Elitism to Inclusive Education: Development of Outcomes-Based Learning and Post-Secondary Credit Accumulation and Transfer Systems in England and Wales</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> <IMG height=19 src="images/pdf.gif" width=24></FONT></P> <H4 align=center><FONT face="Benguiat Bk BT" color=#33cc33 size=3><BR>Useful Links:</FONT></H4> <P align=left><A href="http://www.oecd.org./home"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>OECD Education Directorate</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> (The Centre for Educational Research and Innovation has promoted discussion of education reform in the OECD member nations)</FONT></P> <P align=left><A href="http://learning.media.mit.edu/"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The Future of Learning</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> (An MIT site with many stimulating documents)</FONT></P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.infed.org/"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The Home of Informal Education</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> (A site with many useful documents) </FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <P></P></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD width="13%" height=51 border="0" > <P align=left><A href="bio.htm"><IMG height=50 src="images/AboutRon.gif" width=150 border=0></A></P></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD width="13%" height=51 border="0" ><A href="LC.htm"><IMG height=50 src="images/LC.gif" width=150 border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD width="13%" height=51 border="0" ><A href="LL.htm"><IMG height=50 src="images/LL.gif" width=150 border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD width="13%" height=51 border="0" ><A href="SL.htm"><IMG height=50 src="images/SL.gif" width=150 border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD vAlign=top width="13%" height=389 border="0" ><A href="mailto:rfaris@shaw.ca"><IMG height=50 src="images/CR.gif" width=150 border=0></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>