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Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2022
This brief underlines the contribution higher education makes to tackling entrenched global challenges and realising all of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- through research, teaching, and community engagement. Higher education-led partnerships should be recognised as an effective model that adds value to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Sustainable Development, International Organizations
Stefania Vindrola; Ghalia Ghawi; Ruoyu Li – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
Early childhood education (ECE) is becoming a global policy priority, especially in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) where there is commitment to invest in the youngest learners. Building on system-level mappings in 2015 and 2017, this report delves into the status of ECE systems in the Pacific region as of 2022. Based on a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Global Approach, Educational Improvement
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Ramaswamy, Meghna; Marciniuk, Darcy D.; Csonka, Viktória; Colò, Laura; Saso, Luciano – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2021
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a critical role in creating and distributing the knowledge required to tackle the complex global challenges faced by society today. This role is frequently linked with the concept of the internationalization of higher education, but this concept in practice is also subject to criticism. This article argues…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Organizational Change, Sustainable Development
John Zubizarreta, Editor; Victoria M. Bryan, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
Joy, freedom, and benefit--the reasons we are at our colleges and universities. The joy of learning, the freedom to grow, and the benefit of education are all basic human rights, or at least they ought to be. We believe that both honors and faculty development affirm, support, and sustain those rights. We married in 2000, at the beginnings of our…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Freedom, Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops
Rachel Parker; Jennie Chainey; Payal Goundar; Sarah Richardson; Anna Dabrowski; Amy Berry; Claire Scoular – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2023
Substantive work has been undertaken to define and frame global citizenship education (GCED). Global citizenship and related terms are included in the curricula and policy statements of many diverse nations around the world (Parker & Fraillon, 2016; APCEIU, 2020b), however, the education sector often struggles to enact and monitor GCED in ways…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Objectives, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Adiego, Joaquín; Martín-Cruz, Natalia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to explain the development of an online training curriculum to enable students to acquire the transversal competences needed to work on smart cities projects. In this curriculum, a modern approach to the teaching-learning process was applied, suitable for the interdisciplinary and multinational learning challenges that…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Urban Areas, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
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Daly, Angela; Parker, Sara; Sherpa, Samden; Regmi, Umesh – Education 3-13, 2020
This paper presents reflections from recent research on the opportunities and barriers for education in Nepal in the context of federalisation. Public administration of services including education is subject to major reorganisation as a national priority. By 2019, new structures of local governance will be established, presenting an opportunity…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Laxton, Debra; Cooper, Linda; Shrestha, Purna; Younie, Sarah – Education 3-13, 2021
This case study used a co-creation approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a translational research strategy in supporting early childhood education. How Mapping Educational Specialist Knowhow (MESH) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) collaborated to enhance the training of volunteers and learning provision for 1,500 refugee children is…
Descriptors: Refugees, Case Studies, Objectives, Language Variation
Martinson, Karin; Williams, Julie; Needels, Karen; Peck, Laura; Moulton, Shawn; Paxton, Nora; Mastri, Annalisa; Copson, Elizabeth; Nisar, Hiren; Comfort, Alison; Brown-Lyons, Melanie – Abt Associates, 2016
This report summarizes the final results for the Green Jobs and Health Care (GJ-HC) Impact Evaluation, a study of selected grantees funded by two job training initiatives administered by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). In response to the 2008 recession and as part of the American Recovery and…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Program Evaluation, Partnerships in Education
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Odo, J. U.; Okafor, W. C.; Odo, A. L.; Ejikeugwu, L. N.; Ugwuoke, C. N. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Technical education has been identified as one of the most effective human resource development that needs to be embraced for rapid industrialization and sustainable technological development of any nation. Technical education has been an integral part of national development in many societies because of its impact on productivity and economic…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Sustainable Development, Job Skills, Technological Advancement
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Fahey, Shireen; Verstraten, Luke; Berry, Ashton J. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2016
This article presents the results of an innovative education capacity assessment and delivery project to promote sustainable development in large ocean states in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. Science education can help prepare the present and coming generations for stability in an uncertain future. Limited financial, geographical and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Climate, Risk, Capacity Building
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Sund, Louise; Öhman, Johan – Environmental Education Research, 2014
This article draws attention to the possibilities of the ongoing philosophical discussion about cosmopolitan universal values in relation to the normative challenges in environmental and sustainability education (ESE). The purpose of this paper is to clarify the philosophical problems of addressing universally sustainable responsibilities and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Politics of Education
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Rowe, Debra; Gentile, Susan Jane; Clevey, Lilah – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
There has been substantial growth in Education for Sustainability (EfS) in the United States over the past 10 years. Efforts within higher education have created thousands of new programs, majors, minors, specializations, certificates, and across-the-curricula integrations of sustainability learning with an emphasis on real-world problem-solving…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Sustainable Development, Performance Factors, Barriers
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Maclean, Rupert; Jagannathan, Shanti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article provides an overview of the global economic landscape in which the contemporary skills development discourse is located. Effective skills development oriented to market needs and to competitiveness in high-value global value chains will help developing economies to avoid the middle income trap. It outlines major issues and challenges…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Global Approach
Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2012
This paper provides a case study of a dual enrollment program at the City College of San Francisco. The case study describes different aspects of the program, including implementation, student recruitment, enrollment, course offerings, student support services, high school/college collaboration, challenges, and sustainability. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Student Recruitment, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education
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