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Adelowotan, Mo – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This paper discusses the role of open, distance and e-learning in the development of human resources by examining human capital development related disclosures in the corporate annual reports (CARs) of top South African listed companies. The study employed content analysis method to analyse the CARs of these companies with the aid of qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Open Education, Distance Education
Manshor, Amat Taap; Chong, Siong Choy; Cameron, Roslyn – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
The development of qualifications systems and frameworks assists in promoting lifelong learning and work-based recognition systems. Several nations in the Asian Pacific region have established national qualifications frameworks across their respective educational sectors (e.g., Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Philippines),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Services, Human Capital, Prior Learning
Sia, E. K. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2014
This paper provides an overview of transnational higher education (THE) in Uzbekistan. It includes a brief account of THE current and future market trends. The data, gathered from a literature search, show that the demand for THE (off-campus) is growing even faster than the demand for international (on-campus) programmes. This paper then provides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Educational Trends
Hancock, Sally; Hughes, Gwyneth; Walsh, Elaine – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Doctoral scientists increasingly forge non-academic careers after completing the doctorate. Governments and industry in advanced economies welcome this trend, since it complements the "knowledge economy" vision that has come to dominate higher education globally. Knowledge economy stakeholders consider doctoral scientists to constitute…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Scientists, Knowledge Economy, Higher Education
Nauman, Sarwat; Hussain, Nasreen – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Economic growth of Pakistan through the banking sector relies heavily on the human capital dispensed to them by the Pakistani business schools. A conceptual model of the continuous improvement cycle for building human capital is developed through a literature review, with the aim of helping to generate human capital. Six semistructured interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Business Schools, Sustainability
Jones, Shawn Cecil – Online Submission, 2017
Classroom size, curriculum, and student attendance are all important factors that affect student outcomes, but these factors cannot compare to the classroom teacher's influence on student academic performance. Unfortunately, highly qualified teachers are not equally effective in different school settings. Findings associated with highly effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Teacher Characteristics
Dincer, Oguzhan C. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
I investigate the effects of trust on human capital measured as average years of schooling in U.S. states using data from the 1980s and the 1990s. I find robust evidence that an increase in trust increases schooling across U.S. states. According the results of the seemingly unrelated regression estimation, a 25 percentage point increase in "Trust"…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Human Capital, Educational Attainment
Manyerere, David J. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
There has been an alarming increase in the rate of unemployment among active urban population in Tanzania whereby the youth are severely affected. In this regard Youth Economic Groups (YEGs) program was formed as one among the best alternative strategies to address this perennial problem. Membership in YEGs act as a means to complement youth…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Unemployment
Fongwa, Samuel N.; Wangenge-Ouma, Gerald – Africa Education Review, 2015
The contribution of universities to regional development has in the last few decades gained significant currency. Inter alia, this contribution has been through steered national, regional, and institutional policies aimed at enhancing national development, good governance, human capital creation and innovation in an increasing knowledge-dependent…
Descriptors: Regional Schools, Universities, Case Studies, Economic Impact
Youhang, Wang; Dongmao, Wen – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
Based on a national survey of 30 universities in eight Chinese provinces in 2011, this empirical study shows that, despite government policies encouraging college graduates to work at the grassroots level, few students actually do so, due to concerns about their career prospects. Human capital, family, and school background and job search…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment, National Surveys, Human Capital
O'Neill, Anne-Marie – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
Following the Tomorrow's Schools administrative restructuring, a second wave of educational change installed globalised discourses as governmentality policies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on Foucault's "toolkit", this genealogical policy chronology traces the transformation of curriculum and assessment into a specific political…
Descriptors: Accountability, Governance, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Kraemer, Sara; Milanowski, Anthony; Scott, Jenna; Adrien, Richard; Fairbairn, Shane; Bourn, Ronda; Hill, Marsha – Teacher Incentive Fund, US Department of Education, 2015
The Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) 4 program represents a programmatic shift away from educator compensation reform as the primary lever of change for teacher performance and student learning. The TIF 4 program is designed to encourage the use of educator effectiveness measures to support the strategic instructional vision…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Human Capital, Management Systems, Systems Development
Tyndorf, Darryl; Glass, Chris R. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2016
Numerous microeconomic studies demonstrate the significant individual returns to tertiary education; however, little empirical evidence exists regarding the effects of higher education massification and diversification agendas on long-term macroeconomic growth. The researchers used the Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model to tertiary education…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Macroeconomics
Millei, Zsuzsa; Joronen, Mikko – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
At the present, human capital theory (HCT) and neuroscience reasoning are dominant frameworks in early childhood education and care (ECEC) worldwide. Popular since the 1960s, HCT has provided an economic understanding of human beings and offered strategies to manage the population with the promise of bringing improvements to nations. Neuroscience…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Human Capital, Early Childhood Education, Neoliberalism
Aydede, Yigit; Orbay, Benan Zeki – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This paper aims to develop a better understanding about the labour market dynamics behind the unparalleled demand in higher education and dragging growth rates in vocational high school (VHS) education in Turkey. While estimating labour market outcomes of fields of study has been the subject of many studies in the West, such studies are lacking in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Majors (Students), Labor Market, Educational Policy