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Rebecca Ye; Erik Nylander – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
When comparing lifelong learning systems in Europe, Swedish vocational education has been characterised as a statist, school-based ideal type, with strong emphasis on egalitarianism and social citizenship. However, the popularisation and expansion of higher vocational education (HVE), a post-secondary training form that has a mandate to train…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries
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Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sanaa Ashour – Open Learning, 2024
The higher education ecosystem has been impacted significantly by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), creating uncertainty regarding the future of higher education (HE). The coronavirus has compounded the challenges the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is facing in actively producing knowledge capital. This article collects evidence from current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods
Robert Chapa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While the cybersecurity landscape continually evolves, with new technologies, attack vectors, and defense mechanisms emerging regularly, cybersecurity certificate programs remain challenged to stay current and relevant, often resulting in the delivery of outdated course content in existing programs. Scholars note that the absence of standardized…
Descriptors: Program Development, Computer Security, Electronic Learning, Certification
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Claire Bonnard – European Journal of Education, 2025
The massification of higher education in France has raised a number of questions about the transition of students to the labour market, leading to a series of reforms, in particular the vocationalisation of undergraduate courses. This includes reforms aimed at equipping students with professional skills and helping them to enter the labour market.…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Higher Education, Labor Market, Undergraduate Students
Rose Stephenson; Nathalie Hulbert – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
In 2024, Instructure convened a Commission of higher education and lifelong learning experts to assess emerging policies related to skills development, including the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) and the Growth and Skills Levy (GSL). These policies aim to reform how education and training are funded and delivered to provide flexibility to…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Higher Education, Skill Development, Foreign Countries
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Doherty, Oran; Stephens, Simon – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores the implications for higher education of the rapid development in technology used by the manufacturing sector. Higher education programmes change or new courses are introduced in attempts to match labour market demands. However, the pace of change in the manufacturing industry challenges the authors to reconceive how…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs
Hung Kim Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic choice and exploration are essential aspects of undergraduate education in the United States, allowing students to select courses with minimal restrictions. However, students often face challenges in navigating the complex academic landscape, hindered by limited information, insufficient guidance, and an overwhelming number of choices.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Course Selection (Students), Artificial Intelligence, College Students
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Gouda, Hanan – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The study investigates the effects of learning abilities, market changes and technological development in the field of the need for future skills. Design/methodology/approach: This quantitative research is a descriptive study, as it describes the characteristics of variables. Non-probability sampling was applied. A survey was distributed…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Skill Development, Higher Education, Age Groups
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2022
Access to higher education remains a significant obstacle to Commonwealth nations with more applicants than places in many countries leading to an insufficient number of skilled graduates entering the workforce. Digital transformation initiatives have the potential to significantly increase access to higher education, however, if Commonwealth…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Lifelong Learning, Educational Innovation, Outcomes of Education
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Daniel Sparks; Sade Bonilla – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
More than half of states have implemented tuition-free college policies aimed at reducing attendance costs and incentivizing enrollment. We review the academic literature on the design features and impacts of these tuition-free policies, and we analyze an initiative Virginia implemented in 2021 called Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3), which…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Institutional Characteristics, Student Costs, Higher Education
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Allais, Stephanie; Marock, Carmel; Ngcwangu, Siphelo – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
In South Africa, a national peak structure, the Human Resource Development Council, led by the Deputy President and consisting of key Cabinet Ministers, senior leaders from organised labour and business, community representatives, professional bodies and experts from research and higher education, was established to enable high-level coordination…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Higher Education
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Chetna Gupta; Varun Gupta – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This article demonstrates and illustrates the implication of design-based learning (DBL) and plan, do, check, and act (PDCA) methodology to foster creativity, critical thinking, collaborative decision making, and communication skills ("C4") with realistic constraints, theory, and practical implementation in higher…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Skill Development, Job Skills, Teaching Methods
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Eugene Eteris – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2024
This book unravels the 'new reality' of national educational reforms, exploring optimal strategic directions for education and training. Offering a particular emphasis on EU-wide political guidelines, it encompasses lifelong learning across all levels, and it showcases the pivotal role of modern skills in education for reducing poverty, promoting…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Lifelong Learning, Skill Development, 21st Century Skills
Business-Higher Education Forum, 2020
Strong, ongoing collaboration between business and higher education offers a solution to a growing skill shortage. But to see changes at scale, partnerships must exist within an ecosystem that fosters regular communication, relays industry needs to the academic community, and demonstrates to educators the larger marketplace for those skills. This…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Skill Development, Diversity, Education Work Relationship
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