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Uctu, Ramazan; Essop, Hassan; Jafta, Rachel – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
Policymakers in many countries have lit on tech-entrepreneurship as an essential element for economic development. To this end, South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency, with co-sponsorship from the Swiss-South African Joint Research Programme, has run a cross-country tech-entrepreneurial training programme for local tech-entrepreneurs since…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Innovation
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Di Blas, Nicoletta; Paolini, Paolo – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Technologies are changing the way we teach and learn in many respects. A relevant and not yet fully explored aspect is that they can support, even entice, students and teachers to go beyond the school boundaries, in spatial and temporal terms. Teachers and learners can keep in touch and work together, when they are not at school; they can access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Web Sites, Cooperation
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2013
As national qualifications frameworks in Europe move closer to operation, policy integration becomes a key challenge. Introducing qualifications frameworks based on learning outcomes is now a global phenomenon. According to the recent joint publication by Cedefop, ETF and Unesco, frameworks are either established or being developed in 142…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Schüpbach, Marianne; von Allmen, Benjamin – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to give an overview of research on extended education in Switzerland and to point out the gaps in the field. In Switzerland official education statistics and research on extended education are still in their infancy. This is directly associated with the fact that extended education has only been widely discussed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Educational Research, School Schedules
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Bormann, Inka; Michelsen, Gerd – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article introduces a tri-national research and development project which aims to develop indicators for the cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary educational task "education for sustainable development" (ESD). These indicators are meant to help monitor the implementation of ESD efforts in schools and institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Sustainable Development, Research Projects
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Huberman, Michael – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
A multiple-case, "tracer" study was undertaken involving 11 research projects of the "Education et Vie Active" (Education and the Active Life)--a national vocational education program in Switzerland--to assess the importance of contacts between researchers and practitioners. Iterative data from interviews, observations, and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators, Field Studies