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Sumaya Frick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a study of policy stakeholders (N = 24) in four countries within the regional Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) policy environment. The scope was to identify how they navigated and interpreted conceptualizations of TVET and general education, which have been explicitly tied to national and regional…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Poverty
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Florina Guadalupe Arredondo-Trapero; Eva María Guerra-Leal; Joohee Kim; José Carlos Vázquez-Parra – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This article aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between education for the labor market in the post-pandemic stage and the educational quality of universities, taking as a sample a group of Latin American countries and their main trading partners. Reference is made to the Global Competitiveness Report 2020 of the World…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Educational Quality, Colleges
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Konstantinos Pagkratis – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2024
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is pivotal in fostering innovation and promoting Germany's position in global industries and in several sectors. This paper explores selected cases of STEM education and STEM related VET in Germany, focusing on how learning outcomes are aligned with the evolving demands of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Career and Technical Education, Outcomes of Education
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Mary, Agboola Bolapeju – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2022
The study determined how employers' assessment of graduates' utilization of employability skills influences organizational growth and sustainable development in Nigeria. The design was ex-post facto with a population of 42 registered business organisations in Nigeria. Thirty-five organisation employers and 492 graduate employees were sampled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Sustainable Development
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McCarthy, Breda; Eagle, Lynne – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In the Anthropocene, universities play a role in developing students' sustainability literacy and capacity to solve socio-ecological challenges. The objective of this study is to identify the generic and sustainability-oriented skills and competencies required of business graduates by regional employers. The regional focus meets a gap in the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Multiple Literacies, Job Skills
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McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark – South African Journal of Education, 2020
The concept of decent work is intuitively desirable, an ideal to strive for, and a human right. Awareness of the decent work agenda has been raised in career counselling and is posing challenges about what role, if any, career counselling can play towards the achievement of sustainable decent work for all. Feeding into the social justice values of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Social Justice, Labor Market, Civil Rights
McGrath, S., Ed.; Mulder, M., Ed.; Papier, J., Ed.; Suart, R., Ed. – Springer, 2019
This handbook brings together and promotes research on the area of vocational education and training (VET). It analyzes current and future economic and labor market trends and relates these to likely implications for vocational education and training. It questions how VET engages with the growing power of human development approaches and with the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Educational Change
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022
The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Country Profiles are an online service. They aim to provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on TVET systems worldwide, including key statistical data which can be compared across countries, major TVET policy documents, and information on governance of TVET. Dynamic diagrams illustrate education systems at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Profiles, Statistical Data
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Akinsooto, Tajudeen Ade; Akpomuje, Paul Young – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
This study identified informal economic activities in Hausa community in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. It examined how people acquire knowledge and skills about the identified informal economic activities and provided explanation on why people prefer informal economic activities to other types of economic activities to making a living in Hausa community in…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Poverty, Ethnic Groups, Informal Education
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Al Weshahi, Saif – Higher Education Studies, 2023
Oman Vision 2040 strives to continue shifting the country from an oil to a non-oil-based economy by emphasizing the value of diversification in HEIs. This study aims to provide in-depth insights into implementing the knowledge economy strategy in Oman's higher education system and uses a case study methodology, draws on thematic analysis, and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Higher Education, Case Studies, Neoliberalism
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