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Kosorukov, Oleg A.; Makarov, Alexander N.; Bagisbayev, Karmak B. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of the study is to determine the business need for vocational training. This article gives a detailed analysis of the problem aimed at finding optimal occupational skill structure of training, which involves all kinds of positive effects in various areas of public life--from the economy up to the spiritual sphere of human life.…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Relevance (Education), Job Skills, Qualifications
Tucker, Marc S. – National Center on Education and the Economy, 2012
This is the first in a series of reports from the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) exploring the leading vocational and technical education systems from around the world to draw out what makes these systems great and what other countries can learn from them. This first report was based on a visit of several days to Singapore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Benchmarking, International Studies
Schriewer, Jurgen, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education--just as into Comparative Social Science more generally--in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a range of these positions such as, inter alia, the theory of self-organizing social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociology, Theories, Research Methodology
US Department of Education, 2011
The first-ever U. S. Department of Education summit on sustainability, "Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy," was held on Sept. 20-21, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The Sustainability Education Summit (the Summit) brought together leaders from higher education, business and industry, labor,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Research Reports
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Cassia, Lucio; Colombelli, Alessandra; Paleari, Stefano – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of this paper is, first, to highlight the role of the relationships between universities, institutions and firms in different regional development processes working towards a knowledge economy, and, second, to draw some implications for local policy makers. Adopting the regional innovation system (RIS) approach, the authors analyse …
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Research and Development, School Business Relationship