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Nicky Denison; Les Newby; Peter Mackreth; Peter R. H. Slee – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
The Leeds Anchor Network (or system) was established in 2017 with eight founder organizations. In 2024, membership was 14 and represented 1 in 7 of the Leeds city workforce. Leeds Beckett University is a founding member. This paper explains how the system originated and developed, the role Leeds Beckett University has played in that process, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Seetanah, Boopendra; Teeroovengadum, Viraiyan – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2019
This study investigates the impact of higher education on economic growth and is based on a sample of 18 African economies over the time period 1980-2015. The research makes use of a Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) framework to account for potential dynamic and endogenous relationship in modelling of the tertiary education-growth nexus. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Economic Development, Economic Impact
Chirouf, Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the relationship between higher education (HE) and economic development. Through the use of Algeria as a case study, this study specifically addresses how the Algerian economy needs to integrate HE to promote the country's competitiveness and reduce its dependency on oil. Although the country has adopted European educational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Otieno, Ojala Daphen – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The Government of Kenya spends 30% of its budget on education. It is commonly assumed that education has an important positive effect on economic growth, but to date the evidence for this assumption has been surprisingly weak. This study aimed at exploring the relationships between the amount of investments in education and economic growth. It was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Investment, Economic Progress
A Maturing Global Testing Regime Meets the World Economy: Test Scores and Economic Growth, 1960-2012
Kamens, David H. – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article considers the growth of the international testing regime. It discusses sources of growth and empirically examines two related sets of issues: (1) the stability of countries' achievement scores, and (2) the influence of those national scores on subsequent economic development over different time lags. The article suggests that…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Scores, Achievement Tests, Economic Development
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
Latova, Natalia V.; Savinkov, Vladimir I. – European Journal of Education, 2012
The emigration of highly-qualified academics ("brain drain") is considered an essential factor in the decline of the human capital of post-Soviet Russia. However, statistics show that the scale of this phenomenon since 2000 was minor. The Russian scientists who went abroad for permanent residence or for a contract job abroad represented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Human Capital, Brain
Pasimeni, Paolo – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper presents a new index to quantify, measure and monitor the progress towards the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy. This index is based on a set of relevant, accepted, credible, easy to monitor and robust indicators presented by the European Commission at the time the strategy was launched. The internal analysis of the index shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Test Construction, Sustainable Development
Gavrikov, A. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
This article emphasizes the regional development in today's Russia and focuses on the current state of the system of higher education. The concept of elite professional education is used as a means of social mobility and an instrument for the formation of the social structure of a particular region. What prompted this approach was an analysis of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Education, Middle Class, Foreign Countries
Coleman, Maebh; Hamouda, Angela; Cormican, Kathryn – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
According to the GEM Ireland Report (2009), those who have exposure to entrepreneurship education in Ireland have an increased propensity to start a new venture. The importance of entrepreneurial skills was picked up by the European Union which, in its Lisbon Strategy of March 2000, declared its objective of transforming Europe into the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Graduates, Economic Progress
Ferrarini, Tawni Hunt; Day, Stephen – Social Education, 2014
Everyone under the age of 20 who has grown up in North America has lived in the common market created by NAFTA--the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a zone linking the United States, Canada, and Mexico, most goods and investments flow freely across borders to users, consumers, and investors. In 1994, NAFTA created the largest relatively…
Descriptors: Debate, International Trade, Regional Cooperation, Macroeconomics
Tsamadias, Constantinos; Prontzas, Panagiotis – Education Economics, 2012
This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1960-2000 by applying the model introduced by Mankiw, Romer, and Weil. The findings of the empirical analysis reveal that education had a positive and statistically significant effect on economic growth in Greece over the period 1960-2000. The econometric…
Descriptors: Job Training, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Economic Progress
McLellan, Ros; Nicholl, Bill – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2011
Creativity is acknowledged to be important for economic growth and as an everyday life-skill, however several influential reports have suggested that education could do more to harness creative talent. Creative cognition literature suggests the lack of creativity is at least partly the result of "fixation" (difficulty in generating novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Economic Development, Economic Progress
Yu, Jiantuo – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper estimates multidimensional poverty in China by applying the Alkire-Foster methodology to the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2000-2009 data. Five dimensions are included: income, living standard, education, health and social security. Results suggest that rapid economic growth has resulted not only in a reduction in income poverty but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Poverty, Economic Progress
Suzuki, Kenji – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The question about the contribution of economic growth to subjective well-being has caused long-standing debate in the literature on subjective well-being, and Japan is often mentioned as a typical case of no contribution. With a careful examination of the survey text, nevertheless, this study provides a completely opposite result. In other words,…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Income, Well Being, Economic Impact