The research aims to establish the impact of industrial revolutions and resulting technological innovations on the content and structure of professional competencies that an employee should possess at a particular point in time. The author assumes that each subsequent industrial revolution increases the impact on socio-economic processes, causing…

This paper analysed the specific features of the gap between the university education market and the work market, which change under the influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and involve the reduction of the vertical gap but an increase in the horizontal gap. Directions for overcoming the "gap" through the integration of efforts…

Dalian shell carving is a traditional Chinese craft with profound cultural connotations and historical origins, primarily rooted in the cultural traditions of the Northeast Manchu people. However, current research mainly focuses on its artistic value and development history while ignoring the systematic study of its cultural identity, memory…

The research aims to identify the deformations inherent in the innovation model of development and find ways to overcome these deformations in the specific conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution using the tools available through the digital transformation of the economy. The research is based on the dialectical method of knowledge, methods…

"Capital of Mind" is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, "Exchange of Ideas," Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional…

The research analyzes opportunities of current trends in the educational sphere at the global level formed under the influence of the achievements of the fourth industrial revolution and contemporary force majeure factors (the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions). The research methodology explains why lifelong learning technologies are…

Scientific discovery and technological innovation are the ultimate forces that promote socioeconomic development. However, researchers are not certain which factors play a leading role in scientific discovery and technological innovation and what differences in these factors exist between regions. In this study, we selected 286 prefecture-level…

Making the most of online or hybrid teaching platforms is essential to making sure that, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), higher education settings in developing universities and places are not left behind. While a number of the technological platforms adopted during the COVID-19 lockdown have the potential to reach more kids, they have…

This paper investigates the historical context, internal content, and educational significance of Higher Arithmetic, a 1919 mathematics text by David Eugene Smith and George Wentworth, which has been insufficiently studied. Through historical and content analysis, this study reveals the authors' intention to provide a review and extension of…

Implementation of the practices of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is currently a trendy topic worldwide since various interruptions are expected. Education is considered as a major tool to equip people with the necessary kills to be prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Botswana's education system was ranked among the top…

Recent technological developments have brought about innovations in many fields, such as education, health, economy, and finance. One of these innovations is the concept of digital transformation, which changes the way businesses, institutions, and organizations do business. The concept of digital transformation began with the Fourth Industrial…

The objective of this article is to explore the relationship between concepts relating to nature and production and, by extension, to work, personal prosperity, and Spain's economic growth, as portrayed in compulsory education textbooks between 1965 and 1990. To this end, in our investigation we scrutinize the evolution of the conception and…

There is an ever-increasing demand for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to engage with the challenges of the changing labour market contexts and trends, such as the Fifth Industrial Revolution and the new normal. However, a major criticism is that higher education institutions do not often prepare graduates for real-life contexts. For that…

This paper delineates the intellectual history of endeavours to generate a unified science of child welfare in Finland in the early twentieth century by elucidating the efforts of leading Finnish protagonists to depict the concept of child welfare science. The idea of such a new science was not unique to Finland; similar trends emerged extensively…

Choice of career is one of the most important decisions that everyone makes in life. This choice in most cases determines placement in the workplace. The determinants of the choices students make career-wise include parents, peers, passion and perceived prospects among others. The choice of career made by individuals have long-term implications on…