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Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education. Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
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Knight, Elizabeth, Ed.; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie, Ed.; Moodie, Gavin, Ed.; Orr, Kevin, Ed.; Webb, Susan, Ed.; Wheelahan, Leesa, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2022
This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Academic Entrepreneurship in South African HEIs
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Grundling, J. P.; Steynberg, L. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This article first identifies the principal forces that impact on and shape entrepreneurially-oriented higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, and then analyses the degree to which those institutions have succeeded in becoming entrepreneurial. The results reveal that South Africa's HEIs are still in the initial phases of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Developing Nations
The Development and Establishment of Technology in South Africa. Part 1: The Role of Higher Education. Part 2: The Role of Industry.
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du Preez, N. P.; van Eldik, P.; Mohr, M.; van der Watt, H. H. – Industry and Higher Education, 1998
Responses from 118 of 237 executives in South Africa found the following highly rated: importance of universities in supplying high-level workers; need for high-skilled technicians and innovative entrepreneurs; and need for business to understand technology, fund research, and have a technology strategy. Respondents rated the current reality of…
Descriptors: College Role, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Teachers' Professional Development Through Technology Education.
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Kuiper, J.; Wilkinson, W. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1998
Argues that a social constructivist perspective can inform the design of professional development programs for teachers, using as an example a South African training program in technology use for science teachers. The report includes the comments of teachers in the program. (MSE)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Advances in Technology, Education and Development
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Kouwenhoven, Wim, Ed. – InTech, 2009
From 3rd to 5th March 2008 the International Association of Technology, Education and Development organised its International Technology, Education and Development Conference in Valencia, Spain. Over a hundred papers were presented by participants from a great variety of countries. Summarising, this book provides a kaleidoscopic view of work that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Professional Training