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Ministry of Advanced Education, 2007
This report was commissioned in December 2006 to assess the capacity for trades training in the public post-secondary system with the key objectives to identify current levels of utilization for each of the top trades; identify methods of increasing capacity for top trades; and determine future levels of capacity that can be achieved without…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Class Size, Foundation Programs
Kaufman, Neil A.; Geroy, Gary D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2007
Human capital development is one of the emerging areas of study with regard to social science theory, practice, and research. A relatively new concept, human capital is described in terms of individual knowledge skills and experience. It is currently expressed as a function of education as well as a measure of economic activity. Little theory…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Sciences, Kinetics, Physical Sciences
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Education, 2013
The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) FY 2013 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to assist Congress, the President, and the American people to assess the Department's stewardship over resources with which it is entrusted. This annual report is required by legislation and complies with the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Maine Community College System, 2006
This fact sheet supplies statistical data on student enrollment, programs, graduate results, tuition, and economic benefits of the Maine Community College System (MCCS) for 2006-2007. It notes that enrollment is up 47% since transition to community colleges, the vast majority of first-year MCCS students are Maine residents, more students are…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Enrollment, Community Colleges, College Students
Reio, Thomas G., Jr.; Kidd, Cathy A. – Online Submission, 2006
Extensive research has explored job satisfaction, job performance, and the financial performance of organizations. Job satisfaction and job performance have been explored separately and collectively. However, scholars only have begun to explore the relationship between employee job satisfaction and financial performance of organization. This paper…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Correlation, Case Studies
Wawire, Nelson W.; Nafukho, Fredrick M. – Online Submission, 2006
Despite economic theory postulating that increases in investment in human capital and physical capital leads to increase in economic growth, in the Kenyan case, this has not been true. This paper empirically examines the contribution of human capital and physical capital to economic growth in Kenya. Measures to be undertaken by higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Human Capital, Human Resources
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DesJardins, Stephen L.; Bell, Allison – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2006
This chapter demonstrates how institutional researchers at institutions of higher education can use economic theory for enrollment management. (Contains 4 figures.)
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Enrollment Management, Microeconomics, Higher Education
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Walker, Melanie – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
Increasingly there is interest in development studies and specifically in the field of education in taking up Amartya Sen's capability approach as a framework for theorizing, implementing and evaluating education policy as a matter of social justice. This paper sets out to contribute to the emerging debate and to show how the capability approach…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Justice, Human Capital, Educational Policy
Baldacchino, Godfrey – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
The "brain drain" phenomenon is typically seen as a zero-sum game, where one party's gain is presumed to be another's drain. This corresponds to deep-seated assumptions about what is "home" and what is "away". This article challenges the view, driven by much "brain drain" literature, that the dynamic is an…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Migration Patterns, Brain Drain, Global Approach
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2008
In forming a strategy to deal with the severe economic downturn, President-elect Obama and his evolving brain trust of economic advisers should recall the largely successful and innovative efforts by the federal and state governments to avoid a projected steep post-World War II recession - in particular, the key role of higher education. Demand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, Human Capital, Public Colleges
Arcidiacono, Peter; Bayer, Patrick; Hizmo, Aurel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
In traditional signaling models, education provides a way for individuals to sort themselves by ability. Employers in turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the same given level of education. In this paper, we provide evidence that education (specifically, attending…
Descriptors: Wages, Human Capital, Race, Labor Market
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Huang, Yan; Boshier, Roger – Convergence, 2008
In March 2006, Premier Wen Jiabao acknowledged that the situation in the Chinese countryside is desperate and claimed new resources would be devoted to healthcare and education. This announcement should have pleased architects of the Chinese "learning initiative" who are building learning cities and villages. The authors describe why…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Human Capital
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Doughty, Howard A. – College Quarterly, 2008
The text for this article derives from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, which contain the central elements of his extensive critique of education in Benito Mussolini's Italy. In prison from 1926 to 1937, he produced a remarkable amount of writing on many political and cultural subjects, all of which were scribbled out in student notebooks and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Higher Education, Job Skills, Educational Objectives
Sander, Libby – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
There are 11,000 or so people in Kentucky who came within a course or two of earning a college degree, but never did. Almost half a million more took a few college courses but then dropped out. Now educators are trying to lure back those erstwhile students to finish what they started. Over the next 12 years, Kentucky wants to double the number of…
Descriptors: College Credits, Adult Students, College Faculty, Dropouts
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Quinlan, Elizabeth – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
The prevailing discourse informing most Canadian training and labor market policy assumes a positive link between individuals' training and their labor market returns in the new knowledge economy. The primary objective of the study is to test the current rhetoric by developing a statistical model of women's job-related training. Training…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Structural Equation Models, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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