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Erasmus, Barney; Naidoo, Lynette; Joubert, Pierre – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The war for talent remains a challenge that many organisations face but more so for distance education institutions to deliver on its mandate to provide effective online academic offerings. The question that remains is: How can intellectual capital be managed effectively in order to recruit and retain talent that is necessary for success? This…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Open Education, Distance Education, Higher Education
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Novelli, Mario; Sayed, Yusuf – Education as Change, 2016
This paper presents a "peace with social justice" framework for analysing the role of teachers as agents of sustainable peace, social cohesion and development and applies this to research evidence from Pakistan, Uganda, Myanmar and South Africa. The paper draws on evidence from a recently completed UNICEF and ESRC funded project on…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Teacher Role, Peace, Governance
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van Wyk, M. M.; Alexander, G.; Moreeng, B. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Alexander, Van Wyk, Bereng and November (2009) are of the opinion that the purpose of education is the development of human capital towards meeting and achieving the individual and psycho-social needs of learners and communities which should be brought about through a process of transformation. In essence, this would imply that any discourse with…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Human Capital, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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de Lange, N.; Olivier, M. A. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
In this article we argue that higher education institutions ought to be a reflection of society: its vision, values, conscience and ways of doing. It has as its task the production of "human capital" for participation in a global economy and by virtue of its position in society, ought to be able to do justice to that. In this article we…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Global Approach, Foreign Countries