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John J. Posillico; David J. Edwards – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Higher education curriculum development in the construction industry has historically received scant academic attention and often, courses/programmes are largely developed using the tacit knowledge of individual tutors. This research investigates the core interpersonal and technical skills and competencies required of a contemporary…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Construction Management, Higher Education, Curriculum Development
Sinervo, Lotta-Maria; Kork, Anna-Aurora; Hasanen, Kirsi – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
Traditionally, civil servants and public officials are highly educated and have strong administrative expertise. Public financial managers have been regarded as 'guardians of the public purse', who have solid budgeting, accounting and auditing skills. However, the development of 'mega-trends' such as digitalization and e-government affect the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Public Administration Education, Public Administration, Money Management
Sanna-Mari Renfors – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Higher education institutions and their lecturers are strategic agents and main drivers that contribute to circular economy transition. This requires them to understand the key circular economy competencies and how to integrate circular economy holistically into their curricula with the suitable teaching and learning approaches. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Economics, Sustainability
Olga V. Galustyan; Galina P. Zhirkova; Wang ?an; Saida S. Gamisonija; Igor I. Boldyrev; Olga V. Khripunkova – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Higher education is immersed in unpredictable environments and is facing challenges during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It needs to adapt to external changes constantly, especially to the level of development of science and technology as the most important component of education courses for future engineers are facing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Engineering Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ana Elena Builes-Vélez; Juliana Restrepo; Juan Diego Martínez – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to identify how the faculties of a Colombian University have understood the concept of sustainability and the way they have embedded it into their training. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative research was done using documentary and content analysis which allowed researchers to recognize features correlated to…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
Muhammad, Rifqi; Nugraheni, Peni – SAGE Open, 2022
The growth of Islamic banks in Indonesia has not been followed by the availability of competence human resources that meet professional qualifications. Higher education institutions are the large provider of human resources to fulfill the needs of Islamic financial industry. The aim of this study is to formulate the accounting curriculum…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Human Resources, Banking, Islam
Santhi Raghavan; Nantha Kumar Subramaniam; Ahmad Izanee Awang – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The rising prominence of micro-credentials started during the COVID-19 pandemic, where online resources offered competency-building opportunities for the work-from-home (WFH) human capital. During this pandemic, traditional universities faced total halt to face-to-face lectures, but ways paved for open and distance learning (ODL) universities to…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Human Capital, Competence, Open Education
Hume, Therese – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the implications for higher education of a rapidly changing global context, where technologies play a role in the propagation of unsustainable patterns of change. Drawing from research on science and technology studies as well as existing work on (higher) education for sustainability, it seeks to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education
Gedifew, Matebe Tafere – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
The purpose of this study is twofold: to examine the curriculum structure for instructional leaders' training and development against the desired competences; and to evaluate the career development framework of instructional leaders. With these ends in view, the study examined the instructional leadership framework, the curriculum document, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Relevance (Education)
Davis, William S. – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a cross-cultural, empirical framework for exploring what world (i.e., "foreign") language educators can do to support the satisfaction of their learners' basic psychological needs and, in turn, their autonomous motivation and well-being. Despite this, the identification of approaches to world…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Learning Theories, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy
Federiakin, Denis; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Kardanova, Elena; Kühling-Thees, Carla; Reichert-Schlax, Jasmin; Koreshnikova, Yuliya – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we present a study, which models and measures the competencies of higher education students in business and economics--within and across countries. To measure student competencies in a valid and reliable way, the Test of Understanding in College Economics was used, which assesses microeconomic and macroeconomic competencies. The…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Undergraduate Students, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Magruder, Olysha; Arnold, Daniel A.; Moore, Shaun; Edwards, Mel – Online Learning, 2019
Instructional design positions in higher education require greater depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and general competencies than the qualifications found in typical job descriptions and published industry competency sets (e.g., ibstpi). The eDesign Collaborative Research Team, a part of the University Professional Continuing Education…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Competence, Higher Education, Faculty Development
Freberg, Karen; Kim, Carolyn Mae – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
Social media have affected daily activities, communication practices, and business practices throughout society. Social media are more frequently embraced in higher education as well. One indication of this growth is the fact that more than half of all teaching faculty use social media at least monthly for professional reasons, with professors in…
Descriptors: Social Media, Higher Education, Informal Education, Journalism Education
Melnychenko, Anatolii; Akimova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of professional competences development in public management and administration university programmes and the possibilities of implementation of international experience in Ukraine. Using the methods of comparative and system-functional analysis, synthesis and generalisation, the authors concentrate on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Administration, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies
Zörner, Wilfried; Mahomed, Nawaz; Zulu, Ackim; Bader, Tobias; Tenthani, Chifundo; Cuamba, Boaventura; Chingosho, Hilton – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to develop the profile and competencies of a harmonised curriculum for a multi-country regional sector-specific higher education programme. The study, which was based on a case study of Renewable Energy involving six countries in Southern Africa, was based on established methodologies proposed by previous studies on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Environmental Education