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Direct linkGumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
McCarthy, Dianne; Rands, Marc – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Learned societies play a number of roles in countries around the world, including national representation of the research community; recognising and rewarding research achievement; and as funding agents for fellowships, research grants or research institutes. They have a networking role both within national research communities and in linking with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Organizations, Research and Development, Institutional Role
Preiser, Rika; Struthers, Patricia; Mohamed, Suraya; Cameron, Neil; Lawrence, Estelle – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular health promoting schools (HPS) program in a resource poor setting. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the importance of the role that external…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Institutional Role, Higher Education, Capacity Building
Download full textZarate-Hoyos, German A.; Larios-Meoño, Fernando – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of universities and other institutions in successful entrepreneurship. Insights are obtained following a literature review approach. Case studies from the United States (New York startup), Spain (Mondragon), and Germany provide strong evidence that universities are very instrumental in the creation,…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Literature Reviews
Mahsood Shah; Chenicheri Sid Nair – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The higher education sector in many countries is going through unprecedented changes. The changes are as a direct result of external and internal operating environments which are having a significant impact on universities. Externally, changing government policy; ongoing student growth and stakeholder demand for quality; and international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders
Huisman, Jeroen; de Boer, Harry; Botas, Paulo Charles Pimentel – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
A Delphi study has been carried out, soliciting views from higher education experts on likely and desirable developments in English higher education until 2025. The paper reports the most salient findings of the Delphi questionnaire and presents two scenarios that focus largely on the institutional fabric of the system. The first scenario follows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Futures (of Society)
Maguire, Carmel – Australian Library Journal, 2011
The necessity of library and information research is pointed up by referring to some of important categories of research now in progress. Reasons are advanced for the necessity such research in Australia and ways suggested in which students wishing to make a career research and practitioners anxious for research opportunities may be accommodated.…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Library Research, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries
Lipowski, Katrin; Jorde, Doris; Prenzel, Manfred; Seidel, Tina – Professional Development in Education, 2011
International comparisons in science (and mathematics) education show the relevance of teaching quality for learning outcomes. Teacher professional development (TPD) is hence considered particularly relevant for improving teaching and learning in science. The study at hand is part of a European network initiative named Mind the Gap that explores…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Teacher Effectiveness, Interviews
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2012
An effective innovation system requires productive interactions between all its parts. Within Australia there is a view that business-university interactions are suboptimal. Government has set a target for doubling the interactions between business and publicly funded researchers by 2020; and the Group of Eight has a strategic priority to build…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Best Practices, School Business Relationship
Croche, Sarah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
The project of the Bologna process to create a "European Higher Education Area" (EHEA) has established the necessary conditions for the emergence of a new sociopolitical space of higher education in Europe. This space has become a cooperation/competition area that changes the European and national balance of power: the relations the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Game Theory, Competition, Foreign Countries
Wolf, Alison – Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2010
This monograph discusses how to make England's further education (FE) system genuinely responsive to learner demand, as well as stable, affordable, and of high quality. It looks at how a demand-driven system can be organised and funded, at what is required of governments, and what can be left to learners themselves and to the education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Agencies
Dutta, S. C. – ASPBAE Journal, 1973
The General Secretary of the Indian Adult Education Association observes that educational emphasis in India shifted from adult literacy to a wider concept of adult education--social education. The universities must play a dominant role in its promotion and development. It has been incorporated into India's five-year developmental plans. (AG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Objectives, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Broadbent, Marianne; Grosser, Kerry – 1986
This report summarizes a 1985 study during which 85 special library/information center managers from Melbourne, Australia, were interviewed to ascertain their continuing professional development activities, needs, and aspirations. Major areas of investigation included the extent and nature of organizational support for continuing professional…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Inservice Education
PDF pending restorationHigbee, Eliot C. – 1976
As foreign control has grown during the early stages of Canadian technology, one of the major issues of concern to Canadians has become: How does a country with a relatively small population and limited capital shift its emphasis from natural resource development to development of secondary industry without surrendering even a greater degree of…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKari, Jouko – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Deals with research at the Institute for Educational Research (Jyvaskyla, Finland) during the 1970s and compare it with other educational research in Finland during the period. Emphasis of institute activity was on primary education, with a considerable amount of research on higher education. Future research needs are noted. (MH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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