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Sibbald, Shannon L.; Peirson, Leslea; Boyko, Jennifer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The growth of interdisciplinary health services research training programs across Canada has in part been due to acknowledgement of and efforts to bridge a gap between researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Consequently, a new breed of interdisciplinary health services researchers (many of whom have specialization in knowledge translation)…
Descriptors: Trainees, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Health Services
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Bi Ying; Yang, Liansheng – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Under the background of collaborative innovation, interdisciplinary research organizations due to its structural advantages should actively target frontier science and the great needs of national development, key research and strategic issues of solving the country's need, prospective issues in the frontier of science and technology and major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Kivunja, Charles – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
As Michael Fullan (2001) so cogently asserts, the moral purpose of education is to equip students with the skills that will enable them to be productive citizens when they finish school. Whereas pre-21st century learning paradigms catered reasonably well for the pursuit of this moral purpose in turning out school leavers with specialized skills…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Job Skills, Educational Change, Role of Education
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Evaggelia, Kalerante – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The present paper is concerned about the Greek educational policy throughout 2008-2013, which is related to teachers' evaluation and their teaching work, in comparison to the one implemented in 1981. The investigation is focused on Primary and Secondary Education in which the policy of intentions as well as legislation are concentrated on a form…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, School Counselors
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Kivunja, Charles – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
As today's graduates engage with the demands of the current Knowledge Age, the skills that they need to succeed in their lives after college, or any other institution of higher learning, are 21st century skills rather than 20th century skills. Kivunja (2014) calls this "the new learning paradigm" (p.85). Unfortunately, those skills are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, College Faculty