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Sumaya Frick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a study of policy stakeholders (N = 24) in four countries within the regional Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) policy environment. The scope was to identify how they navigated and interpreted conceptualizations of TVET and general education, which have been explicitly tied to national and regional…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Poverty
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Kebede Kassa Tsegaye – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2024
The paper highlights the process of development, validation, and adoption of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Regional Qualifications Framework (GADQF). Using descriptive, textual, and contextual methods derived from participant observation, the paper provides an insider view of the policy-making and regional…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Power Structure, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Brissett, Nigel O.M. – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
The Caribbean ranks second only to Africa as the region with the highest levels of skilled emigration, which is defined as the outward migration of people holding a bachelor's degree or extensive/equivalent experience in a given field. Based on the cost of educating their citizens, there are strong arguments supporting the view that skilled…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Skilled Workers, Brain Drain, Foreign Countries
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Brunner, Lisa Ruth – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Two-step immigration is now a well-established policy strategy in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to retain so-called 'highly skilled,' or higher-wage, immigrants. However, as this paper argues, the specific recruitment and retention of post-secondary international students in some contexts has become a distinct three-step form…
Descriptors: Immigration, Higher Education, Skilled Workers, Student Recruitment
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Reegård, Kaja; Debowski, Horacy – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: The topic of this paper is how mass emigration of skilled workers affects national policies, and employers' willingness to invest in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Poland. In the wake of EU enlargement in 2004, Poland became one of the biggest sending countries for skilled labour to Western European countries. These massive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Vocational Education, Labor Supply
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Cerna, Lucie; Chou, Meng-Hsuan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Taking the migration-higher education nexus as an analytical entry point, we address the question: How can we account for different internationalisation outcomes? We focus on three actors involved in the global race to internationalise higher education activities: higher education institutions (HEIs), states, and migrants. We argue that the…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Strategic Planning
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Brown, Katie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
In today's economy, more than 80 percent of jobs require workers to have education or training beyond the high school level--making skills more important than ever before. However, this does not mean that employers are exclusively recruiting individuals with a four-year degree. In fact, since over half of all jobs today can be classified as…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Legislation
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Yin, Ming; Yeakey, Carol Camp – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
In 2016, approximately 5 million students, about 2% of global tertiary enrolments, studied abroad. As globalisation of education advances, tertiary student mobility is an important channel through which highly skilled immigrants arrive and work in different nation states. Informed by the multidisciplinary internationalisation frameworks, this…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Political Power, Global Approach
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Trilokekar, Roopa Desai; El Masri, Amira – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
In Canada's first-ever strategy, international education (IE) is linked to immigration policy with international students (IS) recruited as "ideal" immigrants. This paper engages in policy sociology and Ball's concepts of "policy as text" and "policy as discourse" (10). It follows three stages of critical policy…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Education
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Sharma, Jyoti; Yarlagadda, Prasad K. D. V. – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
In an increasingly competitive world, it has been proved that invention, development, and profusion of new technologies through science and technology are the fundamental source of economic progress. Australia, which is one of the world leaders in education and India, which has the capacity to produce the highest number of young skilled manpower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Educational Policy, Labor Force Development
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Cohen, Erez – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The global labor market in general and the Israeli market in particular have been experiencing considerable changes in recent decades, affecting the supply of jobs in various occupations. There seems to be an association between changes in the supply of jobs in the labor market and shifts in the demand for higher education. Examination of two case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Labor Market
Institute for Educational Leadership, 2021
In order to create a greater abundance of effective and affordable pathways for low-income learners, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) created Minds That Move Us (MTMU). MTMU challenges the bright minds of communities around the country to design innovative education and training models that create social equity and economic mobility…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Instructional Leadership, Educational Innovation, Low Income Students
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Cerdeira, Luísa; Machado-Taylor, Maria de Lourdes; Cabrito, Belmiro; Patrocínio, Tomás; Brites, Rui; Gomes, Rui; Lopes, João Teixeira; Vaz, Henrique; Peixoto, Paulo; Magalhães, Dulce; Silva, Sílvia; Ganga, Rafaela – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The efforts made by most countries to accelerate economic development have included a significant investment in education. It has been argued that investment in education, particularly higher education, was itself a potential factor in economic development. Education has become a relatively easy means of improving access to the labour market.…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education
Universities UK, 2019
The UK's universities are a global success story; world-renowned for high-quality teaching and for supporting social mobility and economic growth across the UK. In February 2018, the prime minister launched the government's review of post-18 education and funding in England. The review aims to 'ensure that the education system for those aged 18…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Student Mobility
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Rizvi, Afroz Haider – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
At one end, we are grappling with quantity i.e. enrollment but on the other hand the most serious concern is quality and relevance of higher education imparted to student. In terms of quality, the biggest lacuna in the system of higher education is mismatch between the need of society and what the students are taught in classrooms. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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