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Download full textSedere, Upali M. – Online Submission, 2010
Sri Lanka is widening its scope for vocational education sub-sector. The emerging global trends and the aspirations of the emerging Sri Lanka after defeating terrorism demands the preparation of the graduating youth at different stages of the education system for employment. Vocational education faces many challenges. Though there are…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Demands
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Direct linkIschinger, Barbara; Puukka, Jaana – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
Over the years and almost unnoticed, the Norwegian University of Technology (NTNU) had transformed Trondheim, a city 500 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, into Norway's technological capital. As such, high-tech companies like Google, Yahoo, and FAST chose to establish their Norwegian research and development (R&D) base in this far-away part…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Research and Development, Foreign Countries
Ezell, Stephen J.; Atkinson, Robert D. – Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 2008
In recent years a number of reports have raised alarm over the deteriorating state of U.S. science and technology (S&T) competitiveness. But a recent report by the RAND Corporation, "U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology," argues that the U.S. continues to lead the world. RAND's report has been interpreted to suggest that the "clarion…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Competition, Reader Response
National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
This position paper has been produced in order to inform some of the current debates on National Curriculum Assessment in England. The Education and Skills Committee of the House of Commons has announced an inquiry into Testing and Assessment. In part this will examine testing and assessment in primary and secondary education as a key issue.…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Educational Research, Position Papers, Foreign Countries
R&D Priorities for Educational Testing and Evaluation: The Testimony of the CRESST National Faculty.
Herman, Joan L., Ed. – 1989
At the 1989 meeting of the National Faculty of the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), faculty members were invited to present testimony on what they viewed as the most pressing research and policy issues in the fields of testing, evaluation, and standards. These views are expressed in this document,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Agenda Setting, Alternative Assessment
Cross, Christopher T. – 1989
This document consists of 10 separate speeches, addresses, remarks, or testimony made by the Assistant Secretary of Education for Educational Research and Improvement during the period from October 23 to December 11, 1989. The addresses are arranged chronologically as follows: (1) Testimony, Senate Subcommittee on Governmental Information and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
