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Corso, Ron – Higher Education for the Future, 2020
Institutions of higher education in the twenty-first century are undergoing a transformation locally and globally from traditional pillars of learning to being more entrepreneurial in their core business. There is increasing pressure on universities to becoming more flexible and adaptable as organizations and in the graduate attributes, they imbed…
Descriptors: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, School Business Relationship
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Down, Barry; Smyth, John; Robinson, Janean – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
In Australia, like many western countries, there has been a convergence of education policy around a set of utilitarian and economistic approaches to vocational education and training in schools. Such approaches are based on the assumption that there is a direct relationship between national economic growth, productivity and human capital…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Neoliberalism, Correlation, Economic Development
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2014
Washington's community and technical colleges are a collective, powerful, unmatched resource for advancing prosperity through education. These 34 colleges not only connect with employers in the regions where they operate, but also with each other through common programs--like advanced manufacturing and allied health--that align with Washington's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Ardichvili, Alexandre – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss a shift from the mentality of limitless growth and expansion to the new sustainability paradigm in HRD practice, and identifies what corresponding changes are needed in human resource development (HRD) university programs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a review of the literature in HRD and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Leadership, Ethics
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Bahhouth, Victor; Spillan, John E.; Bahhouth, Jocelyne; Khoueiri, Roy – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2012
Economic development depends on business education for a thriving and secure society. A skilled workforce that can create, innovate, and increase business opportunities fosters an environment of prosperity that provides jobs and enhances the quality of life among its citizens. This article examines the environment, content, and delivery of…
Descriptors: Business Education, Student Attitudes, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
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Kitaev, Igor V. – Russian Education and Society, 1993
Asserts that enormous public resources are being expended to teach over specialized disciplines that are useless in a market economy. Calls for educational changes including updated curricula and training materials in economics; inservice education and retraining; and a national network of entrepreneurial education. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Economic Change, Economic Development, Educational Change
1999
These three papers are from a symposium on new perspectives in human resource development (HRD). "Developing an Instrument to Measure the Use of Play-Based Training Methods in Healthcare Education" (Rebecca J. Adams, Karen E. Watkins, Tom Valentine) reports preliminary findings from a pilot study that tested data collection procedures…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Imel, Susan – 2003
Workplace literacy was the focus of attention during the era of the National Workplace Literacy Program (NWLP), funded by the U.S. Department of Education from 1988-1996. Since then, it has not disappeared, in part because recent legislation such as the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Welfare Reform Act has increased the work-related focus of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Economic Development
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "Trust and Distrust at Work: Normative and Dyad-exchange Influences on Performance" (C. Ken Weidner, II), proposes a theoretical framework for exploring and understanding trust and distrust in organizations. "Work Culture Adjustment: A Critical Ingredient to Organizational Change"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction
Federal Ministry of Education, Islamabad (Pakistan). – 1978
In Pakistan, academic education is a luxury. Instead, education must be geared to production, solving practical problems, and promoting national development. Since 1951, Pakistan has attempted to bring work and education together and to throw off the structural and attitudinal restrictions of a foreign educational system which strangled tradition,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Affective Objectives, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations
Kearns, Peter – 2001
The generic skills needed for the new economy were identified through a review of research studies. First, the development of sets of key competencies/key skills in Great Britain, the United States, and Australia were examined. The U.S. model, which involves a broader, more flexible, and more holistic set of generic skills, was contrasted with the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education, Definitions