D.Ed. / Colleges for Further Education and Training in South Africa, previously technical colleges, are important role players as service providers for education and training regarding the new learnership system implemented by the Department of Labour. The task of these colleges, regarding the new learnership system, is to present the theoretical components of approved learnerships as part of the learnership programme to learners. This training is done in co-operation with the workplace that in turn is responsible for the practical training. The Sector Education and Training Authority must approve all learnerships before it can be referred to the Department of Labour or presented in any way. Based on the above-mentioned facts, the researcher deemed it necessary to determine if Colleges for Further Education and Training are geared for the implementation of the new learnership system. This study focuses on the necessary capacity for the presentation of the learnerships and the available facilities of the colleges. This information has been collected by means of questionnaires sent to the colleges as respondents. The researcher also sent questionnaires to technikons, universities and industries in order to obtain the information for the specific sectors. With the gathering of this information, processed by the computer department of the Department Information Management, Division: Statistical Consultation Services (Statcon) of the Rand Afrikaans University, the focus has been primarily on the Colleges for Further Education and Training, technikons and universities, by comparing the processed information.

La présente thèse vise à confirmer le rôle important des institutions financières coopératives en Arabie saoudite. La finance coopérative dans KSA est un nouveau modèle d'institutions financières créées à des fins non lucratives, fermement liées à l'économie sociale. Les principaux objectifs de la thèse élaborée est d'identifier la contribution des institutions de microcrédit en Arabie Saoudite comme une alternative de financement pour aider les pauvres à améliorer leurs conditions de vie et à éradiquer la pauvreté.La thèse offre une nouvelle alternative de financement pour les personnes exclues de l'accès aux fonds du système bancaire classique et tente de mettre en évidence les effets positifs du microcrédit sur ces bénéficiaires. Dans la recherche empirique, l'auteur a principalement mené une enquête sur les clients des institutions de microcrédit en essayant de déterminer si l'attribution du microcrédit avait changé la vie des bénéficiaires et amélioré leurs conditions de vie et de lutter contre la pauvreté.L'enquête empirique est axée sur une approche quantitative. La recherche repose sur la distribution d'un questionnaire sur un échantillon de clients recevant les services financiers des institutions de microcrédit. Le choix de l'échantillon de l'étude a été sévèrement mené : les questions ont été posées sur 2 groupes d'individus : le premier groupe est composé des clients des institutions de microcrédit et le second comprend les témoins du programme (ne recevant pas de crédits).Les résultats de la recherche empirique encouragent les services financiers fournis par les institutions de microcrédit, jouant un rôle central dans l'amélioration des conditions de vie des populations pauvres et l'amélioration des activités économiques des bénéficiaires des crédits. L'enquête a permis de déduire que le microcrédit a eu des effets positifs à différents niveaux. Il a eu une incidence positive sur la capacité de contrôle des ressources et la capacité de gestion des clients et a augmenté le fonds de roulement de l'activité économique et a amélioré la taille de l'entreprise dans la communauté des bénéficiaires en créant de nouvelles opportunités d'emplois. / The present dissertation is an attempt to bear out the significant role of cooperative finance institutions in Saudi Arabia. Cooperative finance in KSA is a new pattern of finance institutions created for non-lucrative purpose, firmly related to social economy. The main objectives of the elaborated thesis is to identify the contribution of institutions of microcredit in Saudi Arabia as an alternative of funding to assist the poor to improve their conditions of living and to eradicate poverty.The dissertation is providing a new alternative of funding for excluded individuals from the access to the funds of classical banking system and attempts to highlight the positive effects of microcredit on those beneficiaries. In the empirical research, the author principally conducted a survey on the customers of the microcredit institutions trying to determine if the attribution of microcredit had changed the life of the beneficiaries and enhanced their living conditions and to fight poverty.The empirical investigation focuses on a quantitative approach survey. The research relies on the distribution of a questionnaire on a sample of customers receiving the financial services of microcredit institutions. The choice of the sample of the study was severely conducted: the questions was posed on 2 groups of individuals: the first group is made up of the customers of the microcredit institutions and the second is including the witnesses of the program (not receiving credits).The findings of the empirical research are encouraging the financial services provided by microcredit institutions, playing a pivotal role in enhancing the conditions of living of poor population and improving the economic activities of the recipients of the credits. The survey allowed to deduce that microcredit had positive effects on various levels. It positively affected the abilities of control of the resources and the ability of management the customers and had increased the working capital of the economic activity and had improved the size of the business in the community of the beneficiaries through creating new opportunities for jobs.

Inaug.-diss.--Breslau. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": 3d prelim. leaf.

Thesis--Eskişehir Iktisadî ve Ticarî Ilimler Akademisi. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85).

The CoHousing movement was formed in Denmark in the late 1960's, and has since become established in Scandinavia, central Europe, Australia, and North America. Through collective development and management of pedestrian-oriented housing with shared facilities that supplement individual dwellings, CoHousing fosters the sense of community lacking in other housing options. This increased contact and interaction with neighbors is seen to be particularly beneficial to two of the fastest growing household types--single parents and the elderly. CoHousing units are typically not affordable to a large proportion of these and other groups, however, and thus have tended to be an option primarily reserved for double-income professional households. / This paper explores the potential for reducing unit prices in the United States and Canada by identifying and examining five key stages of the CoHousing development process: group formation; development structure; site selection; financing and ownership; and planning, design, and construction. Research was guided by: visits to eight of the thirteen completed CoHousing projects in Canada and the United States; guided interviews with CoHousing developers, architects, builders, and residents; examination of financial proforma and construction drawings; and comparison of CoHousing development procedures with conventional affordable housing development procedures. / Results of the study show that while cost-saving strategies in general are more frequently employed than initially anticipated, many are often under-utilized or ineffectively employed. Foremost among the strategies which are infrequently or ineffectively employed are: hiring professional consultants from within the group; selecting sites targeted for redevelopment subsidies; utilizing infill housing strategies; increasing the degree of unit standardization; and increased use of sweat equity in the development of common facilities. The extent to which the measurement of a strategy's effectiveness can be transferred (from one project to another) is limited by the unique location, size, development history, and small number of completed projects. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

The thesis begins by discussing the process of urbanisation in nineteenth-century Scotland, the nature of urban social problems and housing as an urban issue. However, the major concern of the research has been to examine how most people consumed housing in Dundee between 1868 and 1919, a period when the dominant form of provision - private landlordism - underwent crisis. A major time-slice has been taken for Dundee in 1911, using the valuation rolls, allowing the tenure pattern to be mapped and the pattern of ownership and management to be analysed. Tensions arising from the landlord-tenant relationship and tenure distinctions are highlighted, including the missive system, evictions and the rent crises of 1912 and 1915. Local government activity has been examined, especially the powers vested in local officials and the actions they took, particularly in the way this affected landlords, factors and tenants. The nature and form of slum crusades as a response to the perceived, failure of the urban environment is discussed. The changes in policy, which led to the first state-aided council, housing scheme in Scotland, have been researched. Finally the thesis turns to living space and examines the connections between women, planning and the home. Overall the thesis is intended to be a major contribution to the social history and social geography of Dundee.

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geography, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-190).

Originally presented as author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1949. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128).

Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1949. / Bibliography: p. 125-128.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-135).