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Mohamud Mohamed Hassan; Abdi Rahman Ahmed – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
There is a prevailing consensus within literature that higher education plays a pivotal role in national reconstruction and development. As the primary custodians of knowledge, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) assume a critical responsibility in producing highly skilled graduates, generating knowledge that is pertinent to economic growth and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readiness, Program Implementation, Partnerships in Education
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Bogoviz, Aleksei V.; Alekseev, Alexander; Akopova, Elena; Przhedetskaya, Natalia; Ragulina, Julia – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the perspectives of using remote education as a means of restoring Russian recessing regions' economy and develop framework recommendations for this. Design/methodology/approach: The set goal is achieved by finding the dependence of the values of indicators of socio-economic development on the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Knowledge Economy, Economic Development, Human Resources
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Fioreze, Cristina; McCowan, Tristan – Comparative Education, 2018
In recent years, higher education institutions have been encouraged to engage more strongly with their local communities, and address their historically weak links with their surrounding populations. In the latter part of the twentieth century, a number of community universities were established in the South of Brazil, characterised by democratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Knowledge Economy
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Hayes, Aneta; Al'Abri, Khalaf Marhoun – Comparative Education, 2019
The paper theorises fragility of regional solidarities in light of the emerging ways in which two Arabian Gulf states, Bahrain and Oman, are undertaking their transition to a knowledge economy. The paper shows ways in which regional symbolic solidarity goals of common economic and educational development in the Gulf region are challenged by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Knowledge Economy, Social Change
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Rashidi, Ahmad Amanzadeh; Azma, Fareydoon; Samiee, Roohallah; Sobhani, Abdolreza – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Today, most high education experts consider value creation (a term different from entrepreneurship or entrepreneur) as a condition necessary for the survival and development of universities and higher education systems. In this era of advanced technologies and knowledge-based industries in global, regional, national and even local economies,…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries
Scott, Peter, Ed.; Gallacher, Jim, Ed.; Parry, Gareth, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2017
The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. The central argument in this book is that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Language Usage, College Role
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Alemu, Birhanu Moges – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
Despite the improvements in the access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) around the world, there is evidence which suggest that a persistent digital divide between and within countries. ICT increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere. It can influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Knowledge Economy
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Drainville, André C. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This paper takes a longue durée look at universities at the core of the world economy, where the modern idea of intellectuals as trustees of the reflexive structures of society has achieved its most enduring institutional form. To wrest thinking away from a conformism that makes us see universities as nothing more than organisations amongst…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, Educational History, Trustees
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Memba, Albert Zephaniah; Feng, Zhao Jun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Financing of higher education in Tanzania is considered a crucial factor in realizing the country's development vision. It is for these reasons that Tanzania has been financing its higher education since its inception. Diminishing resource capacity and competing interests for government finance plunged the higher education into financial doldrums.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Expenditures, Educational Finance
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Hladchenko, Myroslava; de Boer, Harry F.; Westerheijden, Don F. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The idea of the research university as a key institution for social and economic development in knowledge-intensive societies has been adopted by the Ukrainian government after the fall of the communist regime. Establishing research universities is a long journey during which many things might happen. To understand this journey better in the case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Educational Change, Educational Development
Gaulee, Uttam – Online Submission, 2016
We may examine the relationship between higher education and economic growth by comparing the Republic of Korea to the Republic of India. How do political educational decisions impact economic growth? Although both countries began with relatively underdeveloped economies at the time of their independence in the late 1940s, these two countries took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Role of Education, Higher Education
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Sadova, Uliana; Hrynkevych, Olha – International Journal for Business Education, 2016
Education for sustainable business development is an important institution of the integration process of the knowledge economy. This situation also concerns Ukraine, which is currently experiencing particularly difficult times of its state formation. This article investigates the state of the situation in the field of higher education in Ukraine,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Knowledge Economy, Economic Change
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Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The provision of public resources to manage the expansion of the higher education system in the Philippines has been inadequate, and this has given rise to many private providers entering the HE domain. The proper regulation of higher education in the country is important if the Philippines is to respond to the challenge of producing the skills it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
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Welch, Anthony; Hao, Jie – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
This paper highlights how returnees and knowledge diaspora are important sources for China's human resources development, identifying push and pull factors that also contribute significantly to innovation in the higher education sector. By outlining China's key projects and schemes for recruiting international professional workers, the paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries
Sagintayeva, Aida, Ed.; Kurakbayev, Kairat, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
This collection of papers introduces the proceedings of the fifth Annual Conference--"Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum" held on the 26th May, 2016 at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. The contributors include university presidents, rectors, deans, directors of professional development and leadership programs, faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Economic Development, Social Change
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