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Building Experience, Opportunities, and the Resume: Motivations of Students Participating in Learning-Abroad Programmes through the New Colombo Plan
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Tran, Ly Thi; Stafford, Glen; Soejatminah, Sri; Gribble, Cate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Student mobility from countries in the Anglosphere to the Indo-Pacific has recently become a significant and growing phenomenon. While there has been a large body of literature on international Asian students' motivations to undertake overseas study, much less has been known about the desires students from English-speaking countries such as…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Motivation, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
Achieving Youth Employment and National Security in Nigeria: TVET Imperatives
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Ogbuanya, T. C.; Ofonmbuk, Michael – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The rate of unemployment in Nigeria is alarming and could promote social vices some of which are kidnapping, armed robbery, child trafficking, Cultism, Drug peddling and ritual killing. These social vices could in no small measure constitute a threat to national security as a matter of fact. Therefore, the development of a workable Technical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Level, Youth Employment, Unemployment
Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy
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Morley, Louise – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Drawing on data gathered from British Council seminars in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai on "Absent Talent: Women in Research and Academic Leadership" (2012-2013), this paper discusses academic women's experiences and explanations for women's under-representation as knowledge leaders and producers in the global academy. Participants from…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Women Faculty, Instructional Leadership, Females
Transforming Our World: Literacy for Sustainable Development
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Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
U.S. Community Colleges Asia Student Recruitment Fair Participants, Fall 2007
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American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2007
This publication welcomes students attending one of the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC's) international fairs during Fall 2007 in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Hong Kong and Macau, China; and Seoul, Korea. AACC holds these tours to acquaint international students in Asia with the benefits of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Recruitment, Community Colleges
Formal and Informal Learning Opportunities in Government Organisations: Experiences of Public Sector Employees from Six Asian Nations
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Mokhtar, Intan A. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Lifelong learning and professional development have been the focus of government organisations after the 21st century was declared the "learning century", amidst the impact of globalisation and growth of knowledge-based economies. Although lifelong learning and professional development opportunities are available in most government…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries