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Issofou Njifen – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationship between unemployment and higher education participation. By using panel data covering 40 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2020, we opt to use a well-developed dynamic panel generalized method of moments estimator. The findings show that the youth unemployment rate has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Youth Employment, Unemployment
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Matashu, Martha – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
According to the human capital theory variations in economic growth are explained by differences in the influence of education on human capital formation within countries. Despite huge government investment in education aimed at building human capital countries within the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region continues to face low economic growth. This…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Role of Education
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Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Doménech, Rafael – Education Economics, 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between human capital and income inequality, using an updated data set on human capital inequality and a novel database on earnings inequality. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between these two inequality indicators, but with significant differences across countries regarding the turning point.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Income, Salary Wage Differentials, Technological Advancement
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Kamdjou, Herve D. Teguim – Open Education Studies, 2023
This article revisits the Mincer earnings function and presents comparable estimates of the average monetary returns associated with an additional year of education across different regions worldwide. In contrast to the traditional Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method commonly employed in the literature, this study applied a cutting-edge approach…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Artificial Intelligence, Human Capital, Regression (Statistics)
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Obed Mfum-Mensah – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
Sub-Saharan African societies had contacts with China that stretch back to the early days of the Silk Road where the two regions facilitated trade relations and exchanged technology and ideas. Beginning in the 1950s China formalized relations with SSA based on South-South cooperation. At the end of the Cold War, China intensified its relations…
Descriptors: International Relations, Scholarships, Exchange Programs, Technical Assistance
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Parry, Gareth, Ed.; Osborne, Michael, Ed.; Scott, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2023
This book examines access, lifelong learning and education for all, which have been policy preoccupations in all countries for more than half a century, but have been overlaid and pushed aside by the development of mass higher education. The authors examine what has been achieved, what lessons have been learnt and what still remains to be done,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education, Personal Autonomy
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Ronghuai Huang; Dejian Liu; Asha Singh Kanwar; Tao Zhan; Junfeng Yang; Rongxia Zhuang; Mengyu Liu; Zhisheng Li; Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Open Praxis, 2024
This research delves into the global understanding of smart education from various perspectives, including expert viewpoints, policy dimensions, public datasets, and visions of equity and inclusion. Multiple webinars have revealed that the concept of smart education with a shared vision of quality education in the age of AI is being understood by…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Global Approach, Comparative Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Grant, Kevin; Shcherbakova, Ekaterina – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2021
The purpose of this research paper is to investigate how technology has influenced the economic growth of developing countries and what steps are needed to be implemented in the regions of the world such as Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper reflects the arguments and the conclusions brought up during the discussion with a student…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Technological Advancement, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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Draissi, Zineb; Zhanyong, Qi; Raguindin, Princess Zarla Jurado – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the development track of skills mismatch research and discover the hidden internal connections between literature. Design/methodology/approach: The authors gathered data through scientometric quantitative analysis using CiteSpace. Specifically, this article applied basic analysis, journal cocitation analysis…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Outcomes of Education, Skill Development, Human Capital
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Tshabangu, Icarbord – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2018
The developing world has continually faced tremendous challenges in providing social security and safety nets for its vast populations culminating in wider educational inequalities and extreme poverty. It is not uncommon in Sub-Saharan Africa to find rapacious wealth in the hands of a few co-existing with mass poverty. As a consequence, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Equal Education, Children
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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Zivin, Joshua Graff; Shrader, Jeffrey – Future of Children, 2016
The extreme temperatures expected under climate change may be especially harmful to children. Children are more vulnerable to heat partly because of their physiological features, but, perhaps more important, because they behave and respond differently than adults do. Children are less likely to manage their own heat risk and may have fewer ways to…
Descriptors: Climate, Child Health, Heat, Death
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Sandirasegarane, Sharmila; Sutermaster, Staci; Gill, Alyssa; Volz, Jennifer; Mehta, Khanjan – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is offered throughout the world to students of various educational backgrounds and career aspirations in an effort to create a skilled workforce. The structure of VET varies greatly across different fields and countries with high-growth, low-growth, and transitional economies. However, a common critique of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Entrepreneurship, Context Effect
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Oketch, Moses – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
The purpose of this article is to discuss how best to finance higher education in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on benefits and drawbacks of the prevalent models of higher education finance, and lessons to be learned from countries which have seen greater expansion of their higher education systems in recent decades. Two main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Sustainable Development, Low Income
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Kivunja, Charles; Shizha, Edward – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
With its origin in Greek where "diaspora" as a noun means "a dispersion" or as a verb means to "scatter about", the term is used in this paper to refer to the dispersion or scattering of Africans from their original African homeland and now live in countries other than their own. Indeed some Africans have dispersed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Social Capital, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
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