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Acedo, Clementina; Hughes, Conrad – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article addresses the core competences, attitudes and knowledge that the authors believe will promote transformative learning in the 21st century and should, therefore, feature in curriculum design. It first defines the purpose of curriculum, stressing the need for a coherent worldwide understanding of what is meant and intended by…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Minimum Competencies, Competence, Transformative Learning
Newton, Lynn D.; Newton, Douglas P. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The 2006 UNESCO conference "Building Creative Competencies for the 21st Century" had international participants and a global reach. The Director-General's proclamation that "Creativity is our hope" captured the essence of the proceedings and participants saw the focus on creativity as offering solutions to global problems.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Practices, Creative Thinking, Cultural Differences
Higgins, Steve – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
It is often assumed that the advent of digital technologies requires fundamental change to the curriculum and to the teaching and learning approaches used in schools around the world to educate this generation of "digital natives" or the "net generation". This article analyses the concepts of 21st-century skills and critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Skills, Curriculum Development, Cultural Differences
Dobbs, Richard; Madgavkar, Anu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
As a result of changing employer needs, shifts in the labour supply, and demographic forces, there could be increasingly significant mismatches between worker skills and job requirements by 2030, which could raise structural unemployment levels and slow economic growth. These gaps would include shortages of high-skill workers in advanced economies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Labor Market
Martinez-Fernandez, Cristina; Weyman, Tamara – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The development of a knowledge-based economy relies greatly on developing the skills and education needed for inclusive and sustainable development so that growth will reach all parts of the society. Addressing skills development for all is challenging for all OECD countries; Asian economies are working towards developing integrated pathways of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Case Studies
Jayaram, Shubha; Engmann, Michelle – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Globally, enormous gains have been made towards the goal of universal primary education, leading to increased demands for secondary education. Consequently, more youth and young adults are now entering the formal and informal labour markets from the secondary level, which makes it important to ensure that secondary schools teach skills relevant to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Skill Development
King, Kenneth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Youth Opportunities, Skill Analysis, Definitions
Fien, John; Winfree, Tomi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The construction industry is contributing to the sustainability agenda through numerous strategies to improve energy efficiency in the design, materials, and operating conditions of buildings. However, this is only one driver of change in the construction sector. This article, which takes Australia as a case study, shows that many other drivers…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Energy Management, Energy Conservation, Power Technology
Mehrotra, Santosh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In the first decade of this century, India became one of the world's fastest growing large economies, and began to face serious skill-related shortages of workers. Its TVET system has not responded adequately to the growth in demand for semi-skilled and skilled workers. This article describes six sets of reforms that India's educational planners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education)
Karmel, Tom – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article describes the main institutional features of Australia's TVET sector, focussing particularly on the qualifications framework, how it relates to the labour market, and the role of industry. It also looks briefly at two current policy challenges for Australia. Seeking lessons for other countries in the Asia Pacific region, it discusses…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Success, Labor Market, Institutional Characteristics
Mishra, Mukti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
At present, India's education system turns out millions of young people who are ready to think, but not enough people with entrepreneurial or employment skills. As India faces increasing limits on its resources, both economic and natural, the competency and capability of human resources play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining the economy.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Vocational Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Youth Opportunities
Panth, Brajesh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Most countries in South Asia are either in the middle-income bracket or moving towards it; to move up the value chain towards higher incomes, they need more skilled people and larger investments in infrastructure. The combination of globalization, technological advancement, unprecedented labour mobility, and the demographic dividend offers them…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Employment Potential, Educational Policy, Needs Assessment
Hummelsheim, Stefan; Baur, Michaela – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Germany has a "dual system" of initial vocational education and training, one that other countries admire and would like to adopt. Can it hand this model over to them? This article argues that doing so will require far more than a simple process of copying. Instead, any transfer must reflect the existing conditions in the country…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technology Transfer, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Strategies
Brennan, Paul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Though viewed as second-class until fairly recently, Canada's system for providing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) now provides relevant post-secondary education that meets the needs of highly skilled professionals in all job categories. As the system evolved, it changed the public view of skills education. This article…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education), Postsecondary Education
Maclean, Rupert; Jagannathan, Shanti – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article provides an overview of the global economic landscape in which the contemporary skills development discourse is located. Effective skills development oriented to market needs and to competitiveness in high-value global value chains will help developing economies to avoid the middle income trap. It outlines major issues and challenges…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Global Approach