21st century career development is increasingly characterized by recurring participation in work-related skill learning, much of which is mediated by technology. However, integration of this technology into work-related lifelong learning contexts has been relatively atheoretical and...

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

The idea of free education was first mooted in Nigeria in the early 1950s by the Action Group, a political party that Michael Adekunle Ajasin was a member. For over sixty years since the idea during the struggles for Nigerian independence, politicians have continued to use free education to gain...

Since its inception, the main analytical contribution of the Human Development Index (HDI) has been its emphasis on enhancing the quantity of its components. In this paper, a set of qualitative indicators are introduced in order to formulate a quality-adjusted human development index (Q-HDI)...