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The alignment of black economic empowerment and skills policies in South Africa : we measure what we count but … we only count what we measure!
Kgalema, Victor; Marock, Carmel; Allais, Stephanie - 2021
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
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Profile of training and skilling programs in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Corpus, John Paul P. - 2021
providers in YouthWorks PH priority sectors, were used in this study. TVET providers are overwhelmingly private, but public … providers account for a larger share of graduates. Most TVET graduates are products of either community-based or institution …-based TVET programs. TVET programs and graduates are concentrated in a few occupational sectors, the dominant sector being …
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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Education as self-fulfilment and self-satisfaction
Donlevy, Victoria; Driel, Barry van; Hoareau McGrath, … - 2019
Key drivers of contemporary rapid changes in the educational realm relate to ongoing technological, demographic, economic and social developments in modern European societies. These developments are having an impact on education throughout the lifespan, including a shift to a focus on new types...
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Asia-Africa cooperation in human resource development
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2017
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Edukacja a rozwój społeczeństwa wiedzy
Borkowska, Stanisława (contributor) - 2007
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The impact of vocational training on labor market outcomes in the Philippines
Vandenberg, Paul; Laranjo, Jade - 2020
training (TVET) in the Philippines. Based on human capital theory, our guiding assumption is that investment in education is … significantly higher wages for TVET graduates relative to those who entered the job market with a secondary school education or … below. However, individuals who both trained in TVET and pursued tertiary (university) education tend to have a lower wage …
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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training
Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019
Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...
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