One strategy for addressing the misalignment among postsecondary education, state workforce development programs and state economic development strategies is to create career pathways programs at community colleges where students are able to enroll in a defined track of coursework that leads to jobs in high-demand fields within a state or region.…

This brief report, delivered after the completion of the 1st year of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005-2014), highlights the recent developments regarding the Decade (2005). It reports on the documents prepared, the regional and national launches of the Decade held so far and presents relevant…

The authors investigate why the economic value of education stopped rising over the past ten years. They conclude that the most likely explanation seems to be that the booming economy of the late 1990s helped to increase the average earnings of all workers, including those at the low end of the skills distribution. (Contains 13 notes and 2…

Research today has become very complex, often involving international collaborations among multidisciplinary teams. Many institutions, especially those in less economically developed countries, have a great deal of expertise to contribute to these collaborations, but often lack the instrumentation, training, and research management infrastructure…

In many countries, there have been changes in the way in which education is governed, with greater fragmentation of responsibility between the state, local government, schools, individuals and the market often accompanied by a move from detailed regulation to framework legislation. Previously, these developments have been seen as part of the move…

This paper provides a critical examination of the different ways a high-technology region can evolve and the extent to which a research university can play a catalytic role in that evolution. The author briefly reviews the general roles universities have played in their local and regional communities. This will serve to introduce the major…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of the dynamic character of career and its key attributes, and the embeddedness of their definitions and meanings in national social, political and economic contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Features of three recent distinct social, political and economic situations in Russia are used…

Since January 2000, the authors have experimented with an integrated community-based research-education-service model that combined (1) funded research into the local economic effects of the University of Vermont; (2) a sequence of four semester-long courses to conduct the research and to implement and evaluate key findings; and (3) a…

The author combines the supply and demand model of taxes with a Cournot model of bribe takers to develop a simple and useful framework for understanding the effect of corruption on economic activity. There are many examples of corruption in both developed and developing countries. Because corruption decreases the level of economic activity and…

Poverty in Africa can be attributed to colonial conquest and exploitation. The African economy was organized to meet the needs of the colonizing country, not the needs of the native population. Political independence did not bring about economic independence. A new economic order is needed between developed and developing nations. (MR)

The World Bank, operating in a complex, diverse, and changing environment, provides financial advice and support to developing nations that range from macro-economic management to project design. Major changes in management systems have occurred during the 1980s and are reflected in the bank's assistance in: (1) analytical support of policy…

Two principal speeches at the Conference were "The Educational Requirements of Working Life" (Paul Cherrington) and "Leisure as a Consequence of Economic Development" (Herbert Grau). Mr. Cherrington stated that adult education starts at about 21 years of age, has to do with experienced people, and is concerned with individual development and the…

Agricultural co-operatives in Zambia are discussed under the following topics: (1) Economic background, (2) Pre-independence co-operative developments, (3) Post-independence co-operative developments, and (4) Current developments and thinking. It is concluded that co-operative organization is the most suitable method of combining small farms into…

Models the interaction between human capital supply and demand with a production block and a labor supply block explored empirically for the Netherlands on a time-series basis. Simulates economic development, assuming a 20-year international business cycle. Shows government stabilization policy as effective in maximizing long-range growth.…

Examined the ambitions of Senegalese adolescents with regard to the influence of knowledge and prestige. Results showed balance between self and society, material and moral values, and a predilection to apply knowledge and science to the need for economic development. (Author/NRB)