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Ellie Koseda; Ivan K. Cohen; Jasmine Cooper; Bryan McIntosh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
In recent years, there has been a change in the objectives of Higher Education (HE): the inclusion of employability. The successful inclusion of employability as a goal of HE requires a change to the sector's teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) methods, which ought to be part of an HEI's strategy. In particular, there needs to be an emphasis…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Learning Objectives
Menon, Shalini; Suresh, M. – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The higher education sector has been lately facing new challenges. The ease and speed with which the workforce adapts to these changes determine their agility level. This study attempts to develop a conceptual model to measure workforce agility in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: An extensive literature review revealed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Work Environment, School Personnel
Moreno, Vicente Garcia; Patrinos, Harry Anthony – World Bank, 2020
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Cirlan, Elena; Loukkola, Tia – European University Association, 2020
MICROBOL -- Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitments -- is a two-year project co-funded by Erasmus+ KA3 Support to Policy reform, and more specifically "Support to the implementation of EHEA [European Higher Education Area] reforms". It is linked to the aims of the new Erasmus+ Programme and the EHEA to increase access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Skills, Skill Development
Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma, Ed.; Denman, Christopher, Ed. – English Language Education, 2018
This book explores an area that has been somewhat overlooked in the literature to date -- the current status and future trends of English education in Oman. It offers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the subject and explores areas of English education in Oman that have, until now, been little investigated. It explores…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Leshukov, O. V.; Yevseyeva, D. G.; Gromov, A. D.; Platonova, D. P. – Russian Education & Society, 2017
This article analyzes how Russia's networks of higher education institutions contribute to their host regions in terms of the following three major facets: the economic development; the human capital development; and the innovative development. To ensure the analytical framework used derives relevant and representative findings given the nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Colleges
Schott, Marshall E. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2012
At the University of Houston (UH), the arrival of a new chancellor/president in 2007 resulted in a strategic environmental scan to determine areas where the university's efforts should be focused over the next ten years. Several major initiatives were launched, including one that sought to make UH a major energy university. The decision to embrace…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
In the twenty-first century, learning takes place almost everywhere, at all times, on all kinds of paths and at all kinds of paces. With the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen, young people and adults can access a wealth of information, analyze it, and produce new knowledge at any time. These learning opportunities break wide open the…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Evaluation Methods, Information Storage, Labor Force Development
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2020), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Business-Higher Education Forum, 2013
As employers scan the current workforce and anticipate future workforce needs, they frequently find that employees are not well-equipped with core content knowledge and 21st century workplace competencies, the combination of which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines as "deeper learning." The cumulative effect of these…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Minimum Competencies, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2018), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Educational Quality
Gaudet, Cyndi H.; Annulis, Heather M.; Kmiec, John J., Jr. – Performance Improvement, 2008
This article describes an ongoing project to build a comprehensive evaluation framework for the competency-based Master of Science in Workforce Training and Development (MSWTD) program at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM). First, it discusses some trends and issues in evaluating the performance of higher education programs in the United…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Competence, Competency Based Education
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Educational Quality
Kusy, Mitchell E., Jr. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1988
The author attempted to determine which type of training evaluation method--reaction, learning, behavior, or results--elicited the most management support of training. He distributed a case study survey instrument to 90 master of business administration students and 75 nontraining managers. Data indicated that the results evaluation format…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Case Studies, Evaluation Methods
Russell, L. Roxanne – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Global organizations with personnel in India rank innovation as a primary workforce development objective to stay competitive in the global market (NASSCOM, [2007]). This analysis reviews relevant literature for evidence of cultural factors that stand in the way of innovative performance in Indian personnel and discusses implications for the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning
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