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Aiwen Niu; Changchun Gao; Chenhui Yu – SAGE Open, 2025
Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid has profound implications for economic development in impoverished regions. Building upon Timmons' three-factor theory of entrepreneurship and the resource conservation theory, this study adopts the transition-persistence strategy of entrepreneurs from lower social classes as the focal point, with…
Descriptors: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Öztürk, Eray; Kardas, Mesut; Sapmaz, Ali; Dönmez, Ugur; Sahin, Ilhan; Çölkesen, Arif – Educational Research and Reviews, 2022
Equipping people with desired behaviors, that is, educating them, has been the most important goal throughout the ages. Today, this phenomenon is becoming more and more complex and its effect is felt more intensely. However, unless a person's behavior develops in a valid and reliable way, it is not possible to reach a longed for life style. A…
Descriptors: Social Development, Behavior, Economic Development, Problem Solving
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David Rae; Edward Cartwright; Mario Gongora; Chris Hobson; Harsh Shah – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
This paper demonstrates how the innovative application of a Collective Intelligence approach enhanced Local Skills Improvement Planning information for employers, education and skills training organisations and regional economic policy organisations. This took place within a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between a Chamber of Commerce and a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Skill Development
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Andrew Ebekozien; Clinton Aigbavboa; Mohamed Ahmed Hafez Ahmed; Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan; John Ogbeleakhu Aliu; Matthew Ikuabe; Angeline Ngozika Chibuike Nwaole – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: Studies have shown that research is a global innovation's "engine room." Therefore, young adult-built environment researchers (YABER), especially in developing countries, need research upskilling and reskilling training for better-integrated outcomes. Evidence shows that research training can improve YABER competencies and…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Young Adults, Researchers, Developing Nations
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce about preparing students for success in the skills-based economy. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employment Potential, Skill Development, Labor Force Development
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Muhammad Mujtaba Asad; Abdul Basit; Prathamesh Churi; Norah Almusharraf – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Inspired by the neoclassical economic theory and endogenous growth theories, where former studies suggest that the economic growth of a country can be observed through the combination of three factors. Those three factors include capital, the number of labour forces (human capital) and technology. This research was initiated to study the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Sustainability, Lifelong Learning
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Yugant Patra – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
The Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) (translated into English as People's Education Institute) is an initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India to improve occupational skills and technical knowledge of non/neo literates and persons having a rudimentary level of education but not completing high school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Career and Technical Education, Skill Development
Jobs for the Future, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the United States was overdue for a transformation of its postsecondary education and workforce development systems to meet the vast skill and employment needs of today's workers and employers. The pandemic has exponentially increased this need for change, with millions of Americans permanently out of work and in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Labor Force Development
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Marina Sounoglou – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present paper is a comparative examination of three European Commission (EC) countries' primary and elementary education curricula with the European Commission's Communication and its consequences for curriculum skills relating to children's lives as adults and workers. It is a documentary analysis of secondary sources of the texts of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, National Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum
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Allais, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
This paper examines three interrelated factors outside of formal provision of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa that have undermined TVET systems. The first is the process, pace, and levels of industrialisation, which has had a direct effect on TVET provision: low numbers of well-paying jobs requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Industrialization
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Hake, Barry J. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
The literature regarding the social organisation of 'adult' learning opportunities throughout the life course postulates different significations of policy concepts such as 'lifelong education', 'permanent education', 'recurrent education', and 'lifelong learning' in the 1970s. This paper examines policy formation processes in France during the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning
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Ju, Chuanjin; Hou, Songyan; Shao, Dandan; Zhang, Zhijun; Yu, Zhangli – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this report is to demonstrate open and distance education (ODE) can support poverty alleviation. Taking the practices of the Open University of China (the OUC) as an example, this paper aims to reveal how open universities make contributions to local residents in rural and remote areas. Design/methodology/approach: Focusing…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Poverty
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Njura, Hellen Joseph; Kaberia, Isaac Kubai; Taaliu, Simon Thuranira – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: To develop a conceptual framework that can be employed in secondary school agriculture classes on skills development for food security. Design/Methodology/Approach: The conceptual framework was developed from the findings of an earlier study by the authors on the effect of agricultural teaching approaches on skills development for food…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Thomas, Oliver – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Entrepreneurship is considered a critical factor in stimulating economic growth and creating employment. Entrepreneurship education is viewed as one of the key instruments for increasing entrepreneurial intention and activities. However, it remains unclear which elements of entrepreneurship education are most influential in shaping a participant's…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, Economic Development, Social Networks
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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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