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Knight, Elizabeth, Ed.; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie, Ed.; Moodie, Gavin, Ed.; Orr, Kevin, Ed.; Webb, Susan, Ed.; Wheelahan, Leesa, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2022
This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
National Academies Press, 2012
"Research Universities and the Future of America" presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contribute strongly to America's prosperity, security, and national goals. Widely considered the best in the world, our nation's research universities today confront significant financial…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Technology Transfer, Private Financial Support, Student Diversity
Lall, Sanjaya – 2001
This document examines competitiveness in the developing world. Chapters 1 through 3, which are largely conceptual, examine the following topics: the concept of competitiveness and why it is important; market-stimulating technology policies in developing countries, and the relationship between import liberalization and industrial performance.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competition, Economic Change