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Direct linkAyres-Bennett, Wendy; Hafner, Marco; Dufresne, Eliane; Yerushalmi, Erez – RAND Europe, 2022
A research report from the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe shows that investing in languages education in the UK could return more than the investment cost. Researchers explored a gap in the evidence relating to the economic benefits of extending languages education and found that an increase in secondary-school pupils learning one of four…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Economic Development, Educational Benefits
Parajuli, Mahesh Nath; Wagley, Mana Prasad – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Relation between education and development has been recognized in Nepal since the beginning of planned development efforts and the modern schooling at mass level. Both were initiated during 1950s. Beginning of Development Studies in MPhil and PhD in Education in School of Education, Kathmandu University focused exploring such relationships in a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
Bolstad, Rachel – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2011
This working paper describes some of the ideas underpinning NZCER's Future-Focused Issues (FFI) project. There is a variety of ways to interpret what it means to take a "future focus" in education. This paper explains why the FFI project has focused primarily on concepts specifically mentioned in relation to "future focus" in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Program Descriptions
Bhagat, Susheila R., Ed. – 1984
Development education, the process of sensitizing citizens of industrialized countries to the problems of the third world, and related issues of global development, has gained acceptance among educators in recent years. To respond to this global approach to development, a National Assembly ("Global Crossroads: Educating Americans for…
Descriptors: Children, Developing Nations, Development, Economic Development
Peer reviewedAbramovitz, Norman; Collins, Thomas H. – Social Science Record, 1974
It is proposed that the study of dynamics of development in all countries should take a major place in the elementary and secondary curriculum. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
Download full textAgency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1975
This report discusses the many policy and procedural issues of the Agency for International Development (AID) in implementing the reforms included in the congressional Foreign Assistance Act of 1973. The act concentrated aid efforts on food and nutrition improvement, population control, health improvement, education, and human resource…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Economic Development
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1974
The programs and policies of the Agency for International Development (AID) in administering American foreign aid are briefly described in this booklet. Short introductory sections discuss the reasons for foreign aid, the interdependence of today's world, and the history of American foreign aid since World War II. The remaining parts of the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs
Sacarto, Douglas – 1975
As part of a project which outlines the role that postsecondary education can and should take in a world approaching its growth limits, this resource directory indicates the nature of current efforts related to growth problems. From a broad range of persons contacted by mailed questionnaires, the directory includes information from 88…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Directories, Ecology, Economic Development
Peer reviewedGuthrie, Richard L. – Journal of Public Service & Outreach, 1998
Highlights Auburn University's (Alabama) human-resource and economic-development programs in other countries, including an exchange of agricultural leaders with Germany and Hungary, a faculty exchange program with Haiti, student and faculty agricultural and aquacultural exchanges with China, and a number of programs in other countries. (MSE)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education
Clausen, A. W. – 1984
Recent efforts of the World Bank to improve global economic problems are described, issues which will influence the role of the World Bank in the decade to come are discussed, and the Bank's future role is examined. Recent World Bank efforts to help developing nations include a lending program, project investments, analytical and advisory work,…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Financial Policy
International Understanding at School, 1982
UNESCO's Associated Schools Project developed an interregional project for secondary school students in Asia, Europe, and Latin America to study disarmament, the new international economic order, and human rights. The reasons for studying contemporary problems and choosing these issues, the stages of the project, and its evaluation are discussed.…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Disarmament
Millar-Wood, Jayne – 1981
The purpose of the document is to (1) define the meaning of development education in a United States context, (2) describe formal and nonformal development activities in the United States, and (3) suggest steps that could be taken in the future to promote development education efforts in the United Staes. Development education is seen as both…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Church Role, Cultural Awareness, Developed Nations
Schlack, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia
