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Young, Mitchell – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
Adopting the conception of the university as a primary driver of innovation and economic growth has brought increased pressure for the European Union (EU) to actively steer university-based research policy, despite its being outside of the EU's direct jurisdiction. While the open method of coordination (OMC) was developed for such situations, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research, Public Policy, Coordination
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
While many nations express a commitment to improved educational quality, education often slips down on the policy agenda. Because the benefits of educational investments are seen only in the future, it is possible to underestimate the value and the importance of improvements. This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Economic Progress, Relationship
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Spogli, Ronald P.; Truhn, J. Patrick – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This paper first examines key differences between the traditional approaches of the USA and Italy in relation to innovation and entrepreneurship. The authors then turn to the specific example of southern Italy, which has experienced higher rates of unemployment, lower US investment and fewer educational and cultural exchanges than the rest of the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Economic Progress, Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Altbach, Philip G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
China and India together account for almost 25% of the world's postsecondary student population. Most of the enrolment growth in the coming several decades will be in developing countries, and China and India will contribute a significant proportion of that expansion, since China currently educates only about 20% and India 10% of the age cohort.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Zhou, Yiping, Ed. – Cooperation South, 1999
Considerable resources have been spent to rescue a few countries from crises caused by dramatic shifts in financial inflows and outflows. Measures should be sought to render the institutions and mechanisms of international financial transactions more transparent, accountable, and supportive of the delicate balance between short-term stability and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Progress, Financial Problems, Foreign Countries
Alsagoff, Lubna; Low, Ee-Ling – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2007
The Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching (PGDELT) programme at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore provides an interesting case study of how economic and entrepreneurial concerns and aspirations in modern university settings have played a role alongside pedagogical motivations in shaping the development of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Progress, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
SWANSON, GORDON I. – 1962
AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES IS PRESENTED ALONG WITH SYMPTOMS AND DEFINITIONS OF UNDER-DEVELOPED OR DEVELOPING ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. COMMON EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE DISCUSSED, AND A COMPARISON IS DRAWN BETWEEN THE PROBLEMS THAT MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Educational History