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Theophile Shyiramunda; Dmitri van den Bersselaar – International Review of Education, 2024
This article examines issues of local community development in Rwanda, building on the triple helix model proposed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff in the 1990s to draw insights from international perspectives. The authors favour an expanded quadruple helix model which includes the local community as a unit of analysis, alongside higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Higher Education, School Community Relationship
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Anabela Queirós; Teresa Carvalho; Maria Manatos; Sara Diogo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Higher Education Institutions are expected to stimulate the innovation system and to contribute to the development of societies in a global perspective. Within this context, there is an increasing focus on internationalization. HEIs are developing institutional mechanisms to support internationalization while academics are expected to carry…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Practices, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Kimkong Heng – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the perspectives of Cambodian provincial university students about Cambodia's vision to transform itself into a knowledge-based society. The study employed a qualitative approach to gather data to answer three research questions. Based on in-depth interviews with 21 university students from three provinces, including…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Knowledge Economy, College Students, Employment Potential
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Mohamud Mohamed Hassan; Abdi Rahman Ahmed – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
There is a prevailing consensus within literature that higher education plays a pivotal role in national reconstruction and development. As the primary custodians of knowledge, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) assume a critical responsibility in producing highly skilled graduates, generating knowledge that is pertinent to economic growth and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readiness, Program Implementation, Partnerships in Education
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Lyn Tett – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Data from two research projects with adult literacies practitioners based in Scotland are used to illustrate how policies underpinned by ideologies based on Human Capital Theory (HCT) lead to a narrow conceptualisation of the purpose of literacies education. It is argued that HCT ideology permeates international and national policies and thus…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Human Capital, Employment Potential, Adult Literacy
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Mónica Marquina; Mariana Mandonça; Nicolás Reznik – Higher Education Forum, 2024
Since the mid-twentieth century, higher education systems worldwide went through huge transformations as a consequence of massification and the recognition of knowledge as key for economic development. The emergence of new teaching modes, the intensity of research, and performativity and accountability pressures impacted directly on academic work…
Descriptors: Work Environment, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Economic Development