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Sharma, Amrita – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Employability is a construct that includes soft and hard skills to prepare a person to gain employment, progress in it and sustain a career. The employability discourse, in the context of linking education with skills development, has gained increased attention globally. However, engagement with this agenda differs across countries, as it depends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Educational History
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Climate change is an ongoing process that, at the current pace of such activities, cannot be avoided. Tools have been proposed to deal with climate change focus on adaptation and mitigation. Strengthening national and international awareness of and commitment to reducing the impact of climate change has become the only viable option to ensure the…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Sustainability, International Cooperation
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Machin, Denry – Journal of Research in International Education, 2017
The number of international schools is growing, especially in Asia. This presents competitive challenges; most obviously for student recruitment and retention. However, demand for places at these schools is also growing. As a result, while international schooling may feel competitive, aggregate economic data show that growing numbers do not…
Descriptors: International Schools, Asians, Student Recruitment, Competition
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Jagannathan, Shanti; Ra, Sungsup; Maclean, Rupert – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
This special double issue of the International Journal of Training Research with the theme 'emerging labor markets of the future--reimagining skills development and training' contains 13 articles that provide a comprehensive overview of global and regional trends that impact on emerging jobs and labor markets of the future. With particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, Job Skills
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Dobbs, Richard; Madgavkar, Anu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
As a result of changing employer needs, shifts in the labour supply, and demographic forces, there could be increasingly significant mismatches between worker skills and job requirements by 2030, which could raise structural unemployment levels and slow economic growth. These gaps would include shortages of high-skill workers in advanced economies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Labor Market
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Lockwood, Jane E. – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
LSP performance assessment has become a special focus for language testers in recent years where experts have debated how testing tools and processes can be strengthened to more accurately and more validly assess professional communication at work. Suggestions to achieve this include ethnographic studies of the target language situation; authentic…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lehming, Rolf F.; Alt, Martha Naomi; Chen, Xianglei; Hall, Leslie; Burton, Lawrence; Burrelli, Joan S.; Kannankutty, Nirmala; Proudfoot, Steven; Regets, Mark C.; Boroush, Mark; Moris, Francisco A.; Wolfe, Raymond M.; Britt, Ronda; Christovich, Leslie; Hill, Derek; Falkenheim, Jaquelina C.; Dunnigan, Paula C. – National Science Foundation, 2010
"Science and Engineering Indicators" (SEI) is first and foremost a volume of record comprising the major high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy neutral. It does not offer policy options, and it does not make policy recommendations. SEI employs a variety…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Engineering, Sciences, Elementary Secondary Education
Yonezawa, Akiyoshi – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2007
In this paper, the author tries to set up the framework for understanding the qualitative change of the nature of national policies for higher education through the increasing aspects as "industry" in universities and other higher education sector. Based on this framework, the author analyses, comparatively, the national policies for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Yeow-fei, Jaffe Yee – 1999
This paper presents an overview of the present state of the publishing activities of library and information science journals in Southeast Asia, focusing on format, circulation/readership, quality, and editorial focus. It also highlights some of the important titles from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam,…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries, Foreign Language Periodicals, Information Science