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Xiang, Jing; Yan, Ying – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
Economic globalization not only brings opportunities to all countries in the world, but also brings crises and challenges. The solutions to crises and challenges also entrust education different missions. To this end, there is an urgent need to re-examine the purpose of education, to update the means of education and to change the role of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Economic Climate, Barriers, Role of Education
Gaulee, Uttam – Online Submission, 2016
We may examine the relationship between higher education and economic growth by comparing the Republic of Korea to the Republic of India. How do political educational decisions impact economic growth? Although both countries began with relatively underdeveloped economies at the time of their independence in the late 1940s, these two countries took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Role of Education, Higher Education
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Sadova, Uliana; Hrynkevych, Olha – International Journal for Business Education, 2016
Education for sustainable business development is an important institution of the integration process of the knowledge economy. This situation also concerns Ukraine, which is currently experiencing particularly difficult times of its state formation. This article investigates the state of the situation in the field of higher education in Ukraine,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Knowledge Economy, Economic Change
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Welch, Anthony; Hao, Jie – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
This paper highlights how returnees and knowledge diaspora are important sources for China's human resources development, identifying push and pull factors that also contribute significantly to innovation in the higher education sector. By outlining China's key projects and schemes for recruiting international professional workers, the paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries
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Carrim, Nazir; Taruvinga, Mandi – Perspectives in Education, 2015
This article examines the possibilities and limitations of using ICTs for development in an African context from an education perspective. Although we provide an account of the Pan-African Agenda on integrating ICTs, which covers many countries on the African continent, our focus is specifically on using ICTs for development in a South African…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Access to Information
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Etzkowitz, Henry; Etzkowitz, Alex – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
Although innovation policy usually follows the business cycle, it is both desirable and possible to reverse this trend. Perhaps the most telling commentary on contemporary Europe is the silence that met the presentation, at the recent European Parliament Innovation Conference, of the Chinese R&D spending curve passing the European Union curve…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Knowledge Economy
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Youssef, Leïla – Open Learning, 2014
Globalisation, the shift to a knowledge economy, and changing demographics are increasingly challenging higher education systems. The move from elite through mass to universal education, coupled with the internationalisation of higher education, has profoundly influenced the system, especially in terms of academic mobility. It has created new…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Knowledge Economy, Demography
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Ohiwerei, Franklin Ohiole; Nwosu, Basil Ogomeziem – Educational Research Quarterly, 2013
The researchers tried to ascertain the role of vocational and technical education in the Nigeria economic development using historical survey in analyzing the views of various academic authors in an attempt to inform researchers' on current issues on the field. The research reveals that there was a defect in the curriculum of vocational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Vocational Education, Role of Education