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Khan, Ruhi; Grijalva, Rebecca; Enriquez-Gates, Alejandra – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
Professional development is essential in supporting teachers as change agents to foster international educational reform. Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College acknowledged its role in supporting visiting teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in utilizing action research as an opportunity for professional development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Change Agents, Educational Change
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Boocock, Andrew – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
Leadership in the post-incorporation English further education system has not been distributed in nature, but transactional, driven by the external demands of funding and inspection regimes. However, in the light of the current rhetoric of localism in further education policy there is a view that distributed leadership would be an appropriate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Instructional Leadership, Inspection, Leadership Styles
McBride, Vincent – European Training Foundation, 2019
This European Training Foundation (ETF) assessment provides an external, forward-looking analysis of human capital development issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vocational education and training (VET) policy responses from a lifelong learning perspective. It identifies challenges related to education and training policy and practice that hinder…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
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AlFuqaha, Isam Najib; Tobasi, Adnan – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2015
This article attempts to probe the level of creative thinking of teachers at Philadelphia University in Jordan, and to define its relation with several independent demographic variables, namely age, gender, duration of experience, specialization, and personality types and traits. To accomplish this purpose, three questionnaires are administered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Creative Thinking, Human Capital
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Regmi, Kapil Dev – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Amidst growing criticisms of global financial institutions, primarily the World Bank, this article explores their influence on educational programme planning in some of the impoverished nations known as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The domination of these institutions originates not only from their monetary power but also from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, International Organizations, Educational Planning
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Jules, Tavis D. – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article draws on "regime theory," particularly on the concepts of cooperation, compatibility of interests, and proclivity to compromise, to examine the rise of the Caribbean Educational Policy Space (CEPS). In making this argument, with the aid of a content analysis of 26 educational policies from the 15 member states of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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McMahon, Walter W. – Journal of Education Finance, 2015
A new approach is suggested that depends on and measures how spending on higher and basic education is really an investment in the future, not consumption spending. This is a vital distinction because investment in human capital contributes heavily to growth and development, but also to higher state tax revenue and lower Medicaid, child care,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Investment, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mason, Shannon; Matas, Cristina Poyatos – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
During the last decades, the search to try to understand why Australian teachers prematurely leave their jobs has become an increasing focus of research interest. This article yields significant insights into the history and potential future of the teacher attrition research field. Using a thematic content analysis methodology, a study of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Foreign Countries, Models, Educational Research
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BenDavid-Hadar, Iris – Higher Education Review, 2015
Higher education contributes to state competitiveness via human capital development that provides future returns to the economy through increases in labour productivity. Additionally, higher education is an infrastructure for future state-level social cohesiveness. Those countries where the education system produces more equitable outcomes are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Online Courses, Competition
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Howard, Joanne; Howard, Diane; Dotson, Ebbin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
The infrastructure, financial, and human resource histories of health and education are offered as key components of future strategic planning initiatives in learning cities, and 10 key components of strategic planning initiatives designed to enhance the health and wealth of citizens of learning cities are discussed.
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Educational Resources
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Reichenberg, Monica; Andreassen, Rune – Reading Psychology, 2018
The present study compares how Swedish (n = 340) and Norwegian (n = 236) teachers' human capital and social capital support reading habits as an aspect of professional development. The overall aim was to describe how teachers' human and social capital support their professional development as measured by the aspect of reading habits during leisure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Faculty Development, Human Capital
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O'Connor, Sinéad – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
Internationalisation of higher education in Ireland has been identified as a pathway to economic recovery through encouraging student mobility and attracting highly skilled human capital. International students constitute one element of recent Irish immigration trends, presenting new challenges for a society in which diversity is a relatively…
Descriptors: International Education, Human Capital, Social Capital, Foreign Countries
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Sadova, Uliana; Hrynkevych, Olha – International Journal for Business Education, 2016
Education for sustainable business development is an important institution of the integration process of the knowledge economy. This situation also concerns Ukraine, which is currently experiencing particularly difficult times of its state formation. This article investigates the state of the situation in the field of higher education in Ukraine,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Knowledge Economy, Economic Change
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Frick, Bernd; Maihaus, Michael – Education Economics, 2016
Using two representative samples of some 74,000 students and 11,000 graduates, respectively, we analyse the accuracy of students' wage expectations given their individual characteristics. We find that students are aware of the effects of most of their own characteristics, as a large number of determinants of expected and realised salaries do not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Salaries, Internship Programs, College Graduates
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Shin, Hyunjung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Neoliberal transformation of self, learning, and teaching constructs individuals as bundles of skills (or human capital) and subordinates learning to skill production characterized by an ethic of entrepreneurial self-management [Urciuoli, Bonnie. 2010. "Neoliberal Education: Preparing the Student for the New Workplace." In…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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