This means building a flexible education system where children practice solving social and environmental challenges.
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The QAA watchdog, which the MPs want to replace, warns that "care needs to be taken that we do not put at risk the benefits of a diverse and flexible higher education system".
"We must be just as flexible in the education and training system, " said Ms Rowlands.
Regardless of the court's ruling, we remain firmly focused on our mission of providing a flexible, relevant and quality education to nontraditional students and working learners.
The Department for Education stressed that the more flexible ratios would only be possible where there were highly qualified staff.
She added that the application process for pre-schools was the responsibility of individual education boards, and is 'flexible'.
Individual countries can maximise their gains from Chinese integration and minimise their losses by making their own economies more flexible, increasing mobility between sectors and improving education.
During the bipartisan meeting, the President discussed his desire to find common ground on the need to redefine the federal role in education so that it is more flexible and better focused on responsibility, reform, and results.
Such courses are intended to be cheaper and more flexible than conventional, campus-based degrees, bringing higher education to a wider range of people.
"It is about half the price, more flexible and now is being recognized as an acceptable form of higher education, " he says.
By staying open-minded and flexible in his thinking, he was able to move to a market niche (education) that his organization was particularly well suited for.
There is likely to be a wave of innovation in further education, particularly online, that will cater to this need in a more flexible, personalised way than the traditional degree or postgraduate course.
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The emphasis now is on encouraging pupils to think for themselves, and to develop flexible learning skills that will enable 60% of 18-30 year olds to be in tertiary education by 2010.
Wisconsin's Flexible Option program is "quite visionary, " said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, an education policy and lobbying group that represents some 1, 800 accredited colleges and universities.
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