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Pinheiro, Romulo, Ed.; Benneworth, Paul, Ed.; Jones, Glen A., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Role of Education, International Education
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1986
This document focuses on the need for public schools in the United States to develop the capacity of individuals to participate successfully in the nation's economy. An introduction discusses the impact of schools on the American economy and the effects of the economy on education. Section 2 lists objectives to which the American education system…
Descriptors: Career Education, Economic Development, Economics, Education Work Relationship
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Murphy, James – Oxford Review of Education, 1993
Considers the view, long fashionable in academic and political circles, that sees the expansion of higher education as benefiting the nation economically. Argues that higher education has expanded well beyond that threshold and would be regarded better as a form of consumption. (CFR)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Markley, O. W., Ed. – 1988
This volume is the first of three reporting research that is intended to help postsecondary occupational education deans and directors become able to plan more strategically for using new instructional technologies to meet emerging needs. This document begins with a packet of guidesheets made up of materials from all three volumes. Relevant…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Planning, Educational Technology
Delors, Jacques – 1993
In this speech to the members of the general conference of UNESCO, the chairman of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century describes the progress of the Commission's work. The chairman discusses education and the challenges of the world as it enters the 21st century. Changes mentioned include the rapid pace of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Development, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Markley, O. W., Ed. – 1988
This volume is the second of three reporting research that is intended to help postsecondary occupational education deans and directors become able to plan more strategically for using new instructional technologies to meet emerging needs. The document contains the findings from three background studies in three chapters. "Emerging…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Coordination, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development
Markley, O. W., Ed. – 1988
This volume is the third of three reporting research that is intended to help postsecondary occupational education deans and directors become able to plan more strategically for using new instructional technologies to meet emerging needs. "Planning to Use Emerging Instructional Technologies: Some Useful Methods and Guidelines" (O. W.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Colleges
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 2001
This training manual is intended to introduce local government representatives (LGRs) to the concepts of literacy and development and the role of LGRs in nonformal education (NFE). The manual's primary objective is to encourage participatory dialogue and shaping of experiences by LGRs. It can also serve as a tool for demonstrating the essential…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Definitions, Delivery Systems