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Hailemariam, Abebe – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
This article examines the long-run effect of higher education, measured in average years of tertiary schooling, on the level and growth rate of national per capita income. It uses an improved dataset on educational attainments which not only reduces measurement error but also overcomes data comparability issues and allows us to estimate the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational History, Human Capital
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2021
The fundamental study of physics has played a crucial role in helping to understand natural phenomena and biological processes throughout history. However, physics as a discipline has not advanced at an equal pace around the globe. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), physics research faces major challenges including gaps in human capital, infrastructural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Partnerships in Education, International Cooperation
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Dosunmu, Akinola George; Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
This article offers insights into the concepts of lifelong learning and human capital development (HCD). It highlights HCD as the core of career advancement and lifelong learning for women as an important mechanism for progressing to senior management positions. The two concepts are considered in relation to women's career choices and their…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Human Capital, Career Development, Telecommunications
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Baxen, Jean; Nsubuga, Yvonne; Botha, Liz Johanson – Perspectives in Education, 2014
While governments and communities across the globe are faced with the challenge of providing their citizens with good-quality education, there is lack of consensus on how education quality should be defined. Whereas a great deal has been written about the human capital and human rights approaches, which currently dominate the debate, the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Teacher Education, Human Capital
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du Plooy, Lucinda; Zilindile, Mphumzi – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
This paper comprises a brief study of the literature about the concept epistemological access, a fairly under-researched topic in South African education. It is aimed specifically at the notion of access in the early years of the primary school. Morrow's distinction (Morrow 1992) between formal access (institutional access) and epistemological…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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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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Garton, Paul M. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
The South African student movements collectively referred to as #Fallism or #MustFall were more than resistance to fee increases. They were, and continue to be, movements targeting multiple institutions of Western coloniality and globalisation in tertiary education to establish economic and social equity, placing #Fallism within the broader global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Action, Global Approach, Social Media
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Mavunga, George; Cross, Michael – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Employee learning which is known by terms such as "human capital development" and "lifelong learning" is an aspect of post-school learning which people engage in for purposes of enhancing their work-related competencies and possibly achieve upward professional mobility. There are different views on how best employee learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning, Employees
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Le, Thanh; Tang, Kam Ki – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991-2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Manufacturing Industry, Technological Advancement, International Organizations
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Adelowotan, Mo – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This paper discusses the role of open, distance and e-learning in the development of human resources by examining human capital development related disclosures in the corporate annual reports (CARs) of top South African listed companies. The study employed content analysis method to analyse the CARs of these companies with the aid of qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Open Education, Distance Education
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Lee, Jenny J.; Sehoole, Chika – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
This study examined mobility within the understudied region of southern Africa and particularly, the factors that drive and shape educational migration toward South Africa as a regional, continental, and global destination. Based on a survey administered to international students across seven South African universities, the findings revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Student Educational Objectives, Performance Factors
Fisher, Julia Freeland; Bushko, Katrina; White, Jenny – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2017
The WISE Report from the Clayton Christensen Institute explores perspectives on the blended learning process through the institute's comprehensive surveys of the three countries. This report touches on a number of school-based efforts to implement educational technology, focusing on whether, and how, a sample of brick-and-mortar schools in Brazil,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Barriers, Educational Technology
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Espinosa, Edgar Oliver Cardoso, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The knowledge society arises from the combination of four interdependent elements: the production of knowledge through research, its transmission through education, its dissemination through information and communication technologies, and its exploitation through innovation. For this reason, higher education institutions (HEIs) are the main…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Management, Innovation
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Mayombe, Celestin – Africa Education Review, 2017
The purpose of this article is to assess the course content relevance in contributing to wage- or self-employment of adult non-formal education and training (NFET) in the context of South Africa. The concern that informed this article is that adults who face long-term unemployment due to a lack of marketable skills remain unemployed after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Relevance (Education), Course Content, Employment Potential
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Mitrovic, Zoran; Taylor, Wallace; Sharif, Mymoena; Claassen, Walter; Wesso, Harold – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2013
Over 350 national and international delegates at the 2nd e-Skills Summit and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Global ICT Forum on Human Capital Development have agreed that the e-skilling agenda in South Africa is making a "profound difference" but still not sufficient to build a capable developmental state. The delegates…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Human Capital
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