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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9264200185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for regional development in the Basque Country of Spain.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9264193332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for regional development in Sonora, Mexico.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2013-02-19
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9264188916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for regional development.
Author: Jesús M. Valdaliso
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-10
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1317678478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies that focus on shaping sustainable competitive advantages. To do this they draw upon their own unique resources and capabilities alongside intelligence on existing technological and market trends. However, there is still a notorious lack of both theoretical and empirical research on this issue. The first part of this book develops a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing territorial strategy. This framework asks three questions of territorial strategy – what for, what, and how – looking closely at the key relationship between strategy and policy. The second part is dedicated to exploring this framework in practice through application to a series of unique cases from around the world at different territorial levels, from regions such as the Basque Country, Navarre and Murcia in Spain, Okanagan (British Columbia) in Canada, Wales in the United Kingdom, and the cross-border region of the Øresund in Denmark–Sweden, as well as the city of Rafaela in Argentina. Each case offers something different and enables the framework to be thoroughly tested, generating concluding reflections that add real value for scholars and policy-makers interested in and working in the field of territorial strategy. This volume is intended for the academic community, the policy community (government leaders, policy-makers, policy researchers and consultants) and university students and teachers at different levels interested in the areas of territorial competitiveness, regional development, competitiveness policies and processes of territorial strategy.
Author: Richard Hall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-08-25
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 3319943049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of academic life in the Global North, in order to explore how the idea of public education is subsumed under the law of value. In a landscape of increased commodification of higher education, the book explores the relationship between alienation and crisis, before analysing how academic knowledge, work, identity and life are themselves alienated. Finally, it argues that through indignant struggle, another world is possible, grounded in alternative forms of organising life and producing socially-useful knowledge, ultimately requiring the abolition of academic labour. This pioneering work will be of interest and value to all those working in the higher education sector, as well as those concerned with the rise of neoliberalism and marketization within universities.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9264300260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpain’s economy is showing clear signs of recovery, after a protracted recession. Despite these positive developments significant challenges remain. Spain has amongst the highest unemployment rates in the OECD and the Spanish economy was still smaller in 2014 than it was in 2007. While the ...
Author: Beverly Barrett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 3319523686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century. With a sustained focus on the national level of policy implementation, institutional change is considered in relationship to broader trends in economic development and globalization. Since the concept of a “Europe of Knowledge” was presented by the European Commission in 1997, the pursuit of global competitiveness sets the context for the international initiative of the Bologna Process that has created the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Growing from 29 to 48 participating countries, there are three core explanations for change in the policy process: globalization (economic), intergovernmentalism (political), and Europeanization (social). As part of multi-method research analysis, this book presents qualitative case studies on Portugal and Spain to consider points of comparison, including national governance history and modernization of higher education institutions. The structure of government in these countries affects the policy reforms. Ultimately, the Bologna Process serves as a model for integration of higher education reform in other world regions. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and policy makers in the fields of education, economics, and public policy.
Author: Nair, Suja R.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2018-09-14
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 1522558381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthics, entrepreneurship, and governance are very essential and crucial for the sustainable development of institutions of higher education, especially in the face of moral ambiguity or ethical lapses that could occur. As such, it is vital to explore how to facilitate the effective and efficient development of higher education institutions to put into practice ethical behaviors and entrepreneurial values for the progressive future of society. The Handbook of Research on Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Governance in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of ethics, entrepreneurship, and governance in higher education institutions. Featuring coverage topics such academic misconduct, ethical leadership, and student values, this publication is ideally designed for educational administrators, professors, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the impact of globalization on the ethics and governance in higher education through various policy decisions and practices.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9264333746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication summarises the main findings of a series of high-level expert workshops, organised with support by the European Commission, to deepen the understanding how OECD countries can move towards a broad‐based form of innovation policy for regions and cities. Weaknesses in technology and knowledge diffusion are weighing on productivity growth and innovation in OECD countries, particularly in firms that are distant from the technological frontier (global or national). This in turn weakens their capacity to meet future challenges and undermines inclusive growth.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9264298789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkills are central to Norway’s future prosperity and the well-being of its people. This diagnostic report identifies 12 skills challenges for Norway which were distilled from a series of interactive diagnostic workshops held in the course of 2013 with a wide range of stakeholders in Oslo ...
