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Alan Watkins; Matt Silver – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Educational Change, Systems Approach
Hayes, Aneta; Al'Abri, Khalaf Marhoun – Comparative Education, 2019
The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidarity goals of common economic and educational development in the Gulf region are challenged by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Knowledge Economy, Social Change
Sabzalieva, Emma – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Although the idea of the world-class university is not a new one, it has become increasingly commonplace in public policies around the globe, also gaining traction in states outside the global "core". Kazakhstan, the only Central Asian member of the European Higher Education Area, is no exception as it too aspires to have a world-class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, Educational Development, Institutional Advancement
Memba, Albert Zephaniah; Feng, Zhao Jun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Financing of higher education in Tanzania is considered a crucial factor in realizing the country's development vision. It is for these reasons that Tanzania has been financing its higher education since its inception. Diminishing resource capacity and competing interests for government finance plunged the higher education into financial doldrums.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Expenditures, Educational Finance
Hladchenko, Myroslava; de Boer, Harry F.; Westerheijden, Don F. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The idea of the research university as a key institution for social and economic development in knowledge-intensive societies has been adopted by the Ukrainian government after the fall of the communist regime. Establishing research universities is a long journey during which many things might happen. To understand this journey better in the case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Educational Change, Educational Development
Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The provision of public resources to manage the expansion of the higher education system in the Philippines has been inadequate, and this has given rise to many private providers entering the HE domain. The proper regulation of higher education in the country is important if the Philippines is to respond to the challenge of producing the skills it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
Lynch, Sharon J.; Peters-Burton, Erin; Ford, Michael – Educational Leadership, 2015
In response to a report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, President Obama issued a challenge to the U.S. education system to create more than 1,000 new STEM-focused schools, including 200 high schools. Inclusive STEM-focused high schools--which focus their efforts on females, minorities, and students who are…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Educational Change
Cloete, Nico – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Transformation in higher education in South Africa over the last 20 years has been strongly shaped by post-apartheid pressures. Recent research shows that South Africa's current higher education system can be described as medium knowledge-producing and differentiated, with low participation and high attrition. In the decade following 1994, both…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Higher Education
Lee, Michael H.; Gopinathan, S. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2012
Policy makers in both Singapore and Hong Kong have been preoccupied by the need to meet the competitive economic challenges of a global economy. As education is widely considered as a social investment which contributes significantly to economic growth, both in Singapore and Hong Kong there is a consensus that the school curriculum needs to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Knowledge Economy
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
Pavan, Annalisa – Higher Education Studies, 2013
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, thanks to the foresight and generosity of the Al Saud ruling family, has always devoted great efforts to the development of education. Investments in higher education, in particular, have increased exponentially in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to introduce some facts and figures about the new developments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, Educational Development, Higher Education
Sanubi, Franklins A.; Akpotu, Nelson E. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2015
The study examines the call for Nigeria becoming one of the twenty most developed economies by the year 2020, as it relates to development planning in Nigeria using the educational system as a unit of analysis. It aims at examining the relevance of this call within the context of existing facilities in the Nigeria educational system--both material…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Educational History
Tan, Cheng Yong – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
This paper analyses the perceived organisational legitimacy of the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) in preparing the population for work in the knowledge-based economy (KBE). It is argued that challenges to MOE's legitimacy are emerging with ramifications that are difficult to ignore. These challenges relate to equipping the population with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Educational Policy, Educational Responsibility
Charungkaittikul, Suwithida; Henschke, John A. – International Review of Education, 2014
Today's world may be characterised as the dawn of the new millennium of the learning society, where knowledge is considered as a country's most valued asset and primary source of power. In the increasingly intense competition among international communities, Thailand has been respected for advancing the concept of transforming communities, cities…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Strategies, Change Strategies, Sustainability
Creasy, Rob – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
Higher education in further education colleges has a long history and has expanded in recent years. However, higher education in further education colleges is often treated as being unproblematic. This paper rejects the argument that higher education is simply a level of study, noting that it is a contested concept. As such, the paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Colleges, Adult Education
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