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Pasara, Michael Takudzwa – Education Sciences, 2021
Quality educational institutions are strategic tools for accelerating the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All the 17 SDGs are interlinked. For instance, quality education (SDG4) reduces poverty (SDG 1,2) and inequalities (SDG10) and stimulates good health and wellbeing (SDG3). The paper applied unorthodox theoretical…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Economic Progress, Governance, Postsecondary Education
Arnott, Margaret A. – Scottish Educational Review, 2017
Education policy is a key devolved policy arena in which there are considerable tensions between and within institutions, within and across Scotland and the UK, and in relations with Europe. It may be assumed such tensions could increase during the process of Brexit and the implementation of the 2016 Scotland Act (Arnott 2016; Arnott and Ozga…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Governance
Tett, Lyn – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This paper explores one example of an international comparison -- the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) -- in order to investigate the power of numbers in both the shaping and the legitimisation of adult literacy policy using Scotland as a case study. It is argued that policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Competition, Global Approach
Princen, Thomas – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Commoditization seems immutable and unstoppable but, like other social processes, its prevalence is context dependent. The enabling context for commoditization has been cheap fossil fuels, economic growth, and ever-increasing energy and material throughput. In fact, the scientific findings of ecological, climate, footprint, and material flow…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Fuels, Energy, Social Change
Yang, Jin; Yorozu, Rika – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are in the process of adopting approaches that can be characterised by the terms "learning society" and "lifelong learning". This report uses case studies to present a description of the three countries' national socio-economic climates and to assess their political will and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Wang, Bingxin; Vongalis-Macrow, Athena – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2012
Despite the tremendous economic progress made by the Chinese economy, averaging a nine percent growth per year, one section of the community remains outside the economic boom. As state-owned enterprises (SOEs) restructure into more efficient organisations able to compete in the global economy, the plight of workers within these enterprises has…
Descriptors: Retraining, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
The present study explores how scholars working in the field of applied linguistics, language policy and language education might best contest and negotiate the increasingly economics-driven language polices enacted at the institutional levels of schools and workplaces. The study focuses on Japan as an interesting case of incongruence between…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics
Milana, Marcella – International Review of Education, 2012
Globalisation, transnational policies and adult education--This paper examines policy documents produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the European Union (EU) in the field of adult education and learning. Both these entities address adult education as an explicit object of policy. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Economic Progress
Kumar, Prem – Comparative Education, 2013
In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power is swaying towards the East with the rising economic strength of China and India. Singapore is at the "crossroads" between the East and West of these most populous nations on earth. Although Singapore may appear the most Westernised country in Asia, she is nevertheless a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Economic Progress, Cultural Pluralism
Kearney, Colm – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
The globalization of business education is leading to convergence in the traditionally more diverse business curriculum. This can be seen by examining the mission and vision statements of Asia and Australasia's leading business schools, which emphasize the provision of quality learning and scholarship; educating future leaders; and contributing to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Role, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Clark, Rob – Social Forces, 2010
World-system scholars have traditionally emphasized the stability of the core/periphery hierarchy. However, prior network studies employing both categorical and continuous measures of world-system position reveal substantial mobility across time, whereby a number of developing states have become more integrated in the world economy over the past…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Economic Impact
Gopalan, Suresh; Cherikh, Moula; Khojasteh, Mak – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Business magazines and newspapers routinely refer to India as an emerging global powerhouse along with Brazil, China, and Russia (commonly referred to as the BRIC economies). The Indian GDP has experienced a real growth of 8.9 percent from 2003-2007 and is projected to grow by…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Internet
Adams, Anda M. – Brookings Institution, 2012
With fewer than three years until the planned end-date of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), attention is rapidly turning to what will follow. The elaboration of the next global development agenda is a complex, multipronged process that is academic, political and practical, involving experts from a myriad of social and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Development, Poverty, Equal Education
Altbach, Philip, Ed.; Reisberg, Liz, Ed.; Yudkevich, Maria, Ed.; Androushchak, Gregory, Ed.; Pacheco, Ivan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? "Paying the Professoriate" examines these questions and provides key insights and recommendations into the current state of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Compensation (Remuneration), Higher Education, Research Universities
Asaju, Kayode – Online Submission, 2012
Human Capital development through education is a long time investment made by the state to enhance the well being of her citizenry. By investing in education, well educated individuals bring to bear their talents, knowledge, skills and experiences as they function in the various sectors of the economy. Human Capital development is therefore a…
Descriptors: Well Being, Role of Education, Foreign Countries, Human Capital