The pandemic COVID-19 has had an impact around the world and in the European Union, putting unprecedented pressure on education and training systems. It has fundamentally changed the way we learn, ...teach, communicate and collaborate in our education and training communities. This has implications for students, families, teachers, trainers, institutional leaders and society as a whole. Most European Member States have decided to extend the physical closure of education and training institutions, while mobilising alternative solutions and support for distance education and learning, especially digital solutions. This transformation has challenged education and training systems and stakeholders in these areas in Member States, particularly students and families, as well as teachers and trainers, but it has also provided them with valuable learning and training experiences, accelerated the digital transformation of education and training institutions. Emerging and disruptive technologies have undergone numerous and sufficient changes to ensure this. Thus, they will change the face and vision of higher education institutions.
We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and ...developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science, and international relations.
Education has a strategic importance for economic and social development, as well as a positive effect on the entire society. Therefore, the education system must be effective and efficient in order ...to create a knowledge-based society and a stable economic environment. An important indicator of education quality is the employer satisfaction, which therefore presents a topic of numerous studies around the world. In this regard, the aim of the research was to examine the satisfaction of employers as users of higher education services through scientific methods. The sample included 33 private and public sector entities from various industries, with different ownership structures and a different number of employees. The research was conducted in the Republic of Serbia from May to July 2019. The data were processed using SPSS 21.0. programme in order to conduct descriptive statistics and cross-tabulation. Finally, the research findings indicate the existence of employer dissatisfaction, resulting from the outcomes of certain study programs, i.e., competencies and skills related to occupational profiles.
Since 1997, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has invested in higher education and its expansion as part of its commitment to building a knowledge-based society. Though the UAE has prioritised quality ...higher education, it still faces challenges in producing graduates who are capable of actively participating in building its knowledge base. The literature reveals a clear mismatch between the qualities of university graduates and continually changing labour market needs. Along with demographic challenges, cultural and institutional factors impede progress. This paper discusses these challenges and offers policy recommendations designed to support the UAE in its goal of Emiratisising its workforce and creating a knowledge-based society.
Understanding the role of the factors that contribute to the development and growth of entrepreneurial universities is important for both the university itself and the global economy as a whole. ...Therefore, this study aimed to gain a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial university. The study was designed with a mixed-method approach in which quantitative and qualitative methods were used together. In the quantitative part of the mixed-method research, a systematic literature review of the entrepreneurial university concept was done and based on the results of the literature search obtained by quantitative methods, general concepts and categories and their relations with the contexts were revealed. In the qualitative part of the mixed-method research, in order to explain the entrepreneurial university understanding, semi-structured interviews were conducted with academicians in universities. According to the findings, it was found that conceptualization was very important to understand the entrepreneurial university. The university was considered as an institution that serves students and companies via some channels, such as research reports, an academic publication, or a patent received at the end of a project. As the entrepreneurial university paradigm is being studied by various institutions in the world, this study contributes to the literature both as a theoretical study and as a study that reveal the concepts of the entrepreneurial university. By providing a conceptual framework, the research will contribute to the literature as a theoretical study by aiming to explain the service systems (universities, government, firms) based on the exchange of skills and the creation of common value in the knowledge-based society on the entrepreneurial university paradigm, which is extremely popular in the world. Fındings from the systematic literature review and interviews with academicians were analysed comparatively, and a conceptual framework that evaluates the concepts and variables of the entrepreneurial university with a holistic view is presented.
This study seeks to empirically examine the impact of research funding for academic researchers on their research performance in the areas of natural science, engineering, agriculture and fishery ...science, and medicine and pharmacology in South Korea. Specifically, this study analyzed the research performance of 32,064 academic researchers based on their patent applications, patent registrations, and research articles published in academic journals in the year 2010. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis showed that various forms of research funding have a significant effect on their research performance. The results of this study also showed that the attributes of academic researchers, such as gender, age, where their PhD was completed, and major, have an influence on their research performance.
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韩国学术研究者的科研经费和绩效
本研究试图从实证上检验韩国学术研究者的科研经费对科研绩效产生的影响, 涉及的学科包括：自然科学、工程学、农学、渔业科学、药学和药理学。具体而言, 基于学术研究者的专利申请、专利注册和2010年在学术期刊上发表的科研文章, 本研究分析 了32, 064名研究者的科研绩效。描述性统计和回归分析显示, 不同科研经费形式对学术研究者的科研绩效产生了显著影响。研究结果同时表明, 对学术研究者科研绩效产生影响的因素还包括研究者本身的属性, 例如性别、年龄、授予其博士学位的院校和所学专业。
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Fondos para la investigación y el desempeño de los investigadores académicos en Corea del Sur
Este estudio busca examinar empíricamente el impacto de los fondos para los investigadores académicos en su desempeño dentro de la investigación en las áreas de ciencias naturales, ingeniería, agricultura, ciencias de la pesca, y medicina y farmacología en Corea del Sur. Específicamente, este estudio analizó el desempeño de la investigación de 32.064 investigadores basándose en sus solicitudes para patentes, registros de patentes y artículos de investigación publicados en revistas académicas en el año 2010. Las estadísticas descriptivas y el análisis de regresión mostraron que hay varias formas de financiación de la investigación que tienen un efecto significativo en el desempeño de los investigadores. Los resultados de este estudio también mostraron que los atributos de los investigadores académicos, como el sexo, la edad, el lugar donde estudiaron su doctorado y la especialización influenciaron su desempeño investigativo.
In this paper we look at the relations between knowledge and thinking through the lens of ignorance. In relation to knowledge, ignorance becomes its “constitutive outside,” and as such it may be ...politically organised in order to delimit the borders of the right to knowledge the “ignorance economy,” see Roberts and Armitage (Prometheus 26 (4): 335–354, 2008). In this light, the notion of a knowledge-based society should be understood as a society structured along the lines of knowledge distribution: the rights of possession of and access to knowledge demand that ignorance is planned and executed as the condition of their establishment. In relation to thinking, ignorance appears differently. According to Rancière, the teacher's ignorance conditions the student's appearance as Anthropos, a being who can be asked: what do you think about it? Hence, we are dealing with the ambiguity of ignorance which seems to be both the criterion of social exclusion, and the condition of emancipation. Following this thread with reference to Heidegger's discourse on thinking, we would like to explore the possibility of comprehending knowledge and education beyond the relations of ownership and demands of productivity. Following Rancière, we may say that thinking—as displacing the notion of ignorance—stands in the position of “politics” and questions the ways knowledge societies are structured as “police orders” along the lines of knowledge possession and exclusion.
The ever changing and unpredictable knowledge-based society has emerged due to the accelerated development of science and information technology. In the new economy and society, human capital to ...produce innovation and creativity is a vital foundation for economic and societal success. To meet the need for enhanced human capital, defining, assessing and developing competencies as indicators of human capital are crucial terrain for designing educational reforms as national strategies for an economically competitive world. This leads to worldwide trends toward competency-based-education reform movements. The purpose of this study is to explore how the concept of competencies has evolved over time, especially in the OECD Indicators of Education Systems (INES) project, to cope with the social and personal needs of the knowledge-based economy and society. First, the paradigm shift in the understanding of employability is discussed through an analysis of societal change from an industrial society to a knowledge-based society. Second, the conceptual change in literacy is reviewed by analyzing its newly articulated definition and information process framework in the Young Adult Literacy Survey in the US. Third, the evolution from literacy to competencies is explored by looking at the historical progress of the theoretical and conceptual understanding of competencies in the OECD INES project. Fourth, the historical development of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study is reviewed by focusing on its major characteristics as well as the development of assessment regarding problem-solving abilities. Lastly, the paper discusses the pros and cons of competencies-based educational reform, and presents their implications for creating authentic learning for global citizenship without succumbing to the limited economic argument of human capital development.
In the era of globalization there has been a significant transformation in all the spheres of human life and activity. A new type of society has been formed – information society, based on knowledge, ...and the need for information has become a major factor in economic growth. The basis for the existence and development of a knowledge-based society is a highly qualified, educated society able to use knowledge in professional work. One of the important types of information is career information, which is the source of knowledge about the work environment. One of its elements is the occupational information – materials containing in particular: descriptions of occupations, description of professional competences, a reference to the situation of the occupation in the labour market and professional development opportunities, as well as the employment opportunities of people with disabilities in the profession. Vocational information includes information about education, occupations, and the labour market. This article is an attempt to indicate specific examples of how to use the results of the project INFODORADCA+ in the current companies’ activities and some benefits from them, in the area of human resources management.
This research paper is a literature review conducted on the government of Kenya and their officials who are currently embarking on Vision 2030--a plan that "aims to transform Kenya into a newly ...industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment" (Kenya Vision 2030, 2008). This paper focuses on defining the terms of information poverty and knowledge-based society. It speaks to the responsibility and importance of the role of information policy in resolving Kenya's challenge.
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