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US Department of Education, 2011
The first-ever U. S. Department of Education summit on sustainability, "Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy," was held on Sept. 20-21, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The Sustainability Education Summit (the Summit) brought together leaders from higher education, business and industry, labor,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Research Reports
Arbo, Peter; Benneworth, Paul – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
The contribution of higher education institutions to regional development is a theme that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Knowledge institutions are increasingly expected not only to conduct education and research, but also to play an active role in the economic, social and cultural development of their regions. The extent to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
A policy statement on 1989 public policy agenda by the Council of State Representatives of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is presented. Eight issues were examined, with three being the primary areas for emphasis. They are: (1) educational opportunity and achievement (with such directives as advocating federal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Development, Economic Development, Educational Finance
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
Seven pamphlets by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) contain policy statements on the following subjects: (1) quality and effectiveness in undergraduate higher education (stressing the need for a redefinition of educational quality at the undergraduate level); (2) urban state colleges and universities (educating…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Quality, Excellence in Education, Higher Education
Dean, Ed – 1980
Recent research leaves unsettled the role of education in the recent fall of productivity growth. Part of this dilemma is due to two major methodological problems in the estimation of education's contribution to productivity growth: the methods for deriving weights for returns to education, and the interaction among education and other factors…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Economic Research, Educational Finance
Mansfield, Edwin – 1982
In recent years economists have attempted to estimate the private and social rates of return from investments in education. Another area that must be considered is the effect of education on the rate of technological change and on capital formation. Still another factor that must be taken into account is the organization of education and research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Economic Research, Educational Attainment
Nashif, Taysir – 2000
Technological education is more effective than general education in improving social mobility. Remarkable gender disparities currently exist in overall enrollment in secondary and higher education in the Arab states. Encouraging more Arab women to enroll in technological education would lead to higher percentages of women in higher-paying jobs,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis
Allen, Robert C. – 1999
The role of the social sciences and the humanities in a knowledge-based economy was examined in a comparative study of the income and employment outcomes of secondary-, postsecondary-, and graduate-level study programs in technical fields, the social sciences, and the humanities in 1991-1996. Special attention was paid to the following areas: the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Case Studies, College Graduates
Brock, Colin; Cammish, Nadine; Aedo-Richmond, Ruth; Narayanan, Aparna; Njoroge, Rose – 1997
This partially annotated and selected bibliography lists several hundred publications on the topics of gender and gender and education at the global level and in countries located in the following areas: Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and East Asia, Latin America, and Tropical Island…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies