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Banham, Louise; Ahern, Meg – Global Partnership for Education, 2016
Gender equality in and through education is critical to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as many experts have observed, and investing in this area yields substantial public and private returns. It is a key driver of economic and social development and leads to gains in health, nutrition and many other areas. Support…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness, Change Strategies
Karmel, Tom – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This paper was a keynote address at the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) conference held in Canberra in April 2012. The author notes that industry is arguably the key stakeholder in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector, but is not a single actor nor a disinterested consumer of…
Descriptors: Industry, Educational Principles, Vocational Education, Conference Papers
Olesen, Mogens Noergaard – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
In the history of mankind three important philosophical and scientific revolutions have taken place. The first of these revolutions was the mathematical-axiomatic revolution in ancient Greece, when the philosophers from Thales of Miletus to Archimedes built up the abstract deductive method used in pure mathematics. The second took place in the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Scientific Research, Educational Principles, Educational Change