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Porcaro, David S.; Al Musawi, Ali S. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Despite recent investments in and rapid modernization of university campuses in places like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, higher education in the Middle East still faces many obstacles. One of the greatest has been a fundamental disconnect between education and employment, a possible factor contributing to many of the recent riots in the Arab World. In…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Campuses, High Stakes Tests, Arabs
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Billing, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This article is a result of a completed survey of the mainly cognitive science literature on the transferability of those skills which have been described variously as "core", "key", and "generic". The literature reveals that those predominantly cognitive skills which have been studied thoroughly (mainly problem solving) are transferable under…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Skill Development, Higher Education, Social Environment