scholarly journals An entrepreneurial education model for the Namibian Higher Education system

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ras ◽  
M. Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Education System ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Education Model ◽  
The Government

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to develop an entrepreneurial education model for implementation in the Namibian Higher Education system. Namibia, just like South Africa, has an objective to develop small, medium and micro enterprises to enhance economic growth and reduce unemployment. Development of such a model is supported by the government of Namibia. This paper investigates appropriate entrepreneurial education models used in South Africa for this purpose.Design/Methodology/Approach: This research is an exploratory research design based upon secondary data mainly provided by the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) that enabled the researcher to understand and identify the problems that Namibia encounter in their small business environment. Theories, as developed by the University of Pretoria based on entrepreneurial education, were explored and formed the base of the theory exploration. Findings : The researcher investigated an existing entrepreneurial education model being used for the South African context, as well as a comparison of two models, and an integrated model based on the cited models. These models are used to show the importance of such models and the need to develop one for Namibia. Implications: This paper presents a model that can solve the basic need expressed by the Namibian Higher Education System to find an appropriate model to implement. Originality/Value: This paper provides a foundation from which an entrepreneurial education model can be implemented and improved / customised for the Namibian context.

scholarly journals The Thorny Excellence Initiative in India

2018 ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach ◽  
Rahul Choudaha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Research University ◽  
High Impact ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Excellence Initiative ◽  
Impact Research ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government

India enrolls 35 million students in its large and complex higher education system. In its ambition to enter world-class university rankings, the government has identified six “Institutions of Eminence.” The case of the “greenfield” Jio Institute exemplifies the thorny policy landscape and expectations of building a high-impact research university.

Education 4.0

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
Sana Moid
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Demographic Structure ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Model

Education 4.0 is an education model aligned with future trends in order to develop and enhance individualized education that will eventually go on to define the manner in which youngsters of the future will work and live. Since youth are the main asset of any nation, education becomes the most powerful tool for social transformation. India's demographic structure is changing; while the world grows older, the Indian population is becoming younger, and by 2025, about two-third of Indians will be in its workforce. A few issues addressed in this study are to identify the drivers of Education 4.0, to identify and understand the role of disruptive technologies, to study the transition from Education 1.0 to Education 4.0 and its relevant impact on the higher education system.

scholarly journals Approaches to the Formation of Intangible Resources Based on the Innovations Introduction in the Higher Education System

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (525) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
S. V. Labunskaya ◽  
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M. V. Sobakar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Innovative Capacity ◽  
Classification Product

The article is aimed at determining approaches to the identification and formation of evaluation indicators as to the production, availability and use of intangible resources, including intellectual ones, as a result of innovative changes in the activities of higher education institutions and their reform on an innovative basis. The role of introduction of innovations in the higher education system for improving the innovative capacity and competitiveness of enterprises and the national economy as a whole is defined. Based on the analysis of statistical data, the need to reform domestic higher education institutions on an innovative basis is identified. The role of implementation of the key performance indicators (KPI) system for identification and evaluation of intangible assets of both intellectual and information nature as a result of innovative changes is substantiated. A general approach to assessing the results of innovations on the basis of giving a tuple look to the model for computing KPI indicators is proposed. The analysis of strategies of innovative development of leading higher education institutions of Ukraine for the implementation of innovative changes is carried out. The identified innovations are grouped into the main types according to the Oslo classification: product-related, technological, marketing and organizational. Each type of innovation is considered in the plane of educational, scientific and international activities. The main directions of innovative changes for each of these groups are allocated and technologies for innovative changes are determined. It is noted how the changes in question affect the formation of the intellectual resource of higher education institutions and business environment entities.

Indian Digital Transformational Initiatives in the Higher Education System

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Thangasamy Esakki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
The Government

Globally, the developmental process primarily originates from creative and innovative thinking of an individual. Undoubtedly, higher education promotes the academic quality and research in a country. In order to disseminate knowledge to the aspirants in educational and research institutions, the information and technology has been put to use widely across the world. The digital transformation gained importance in the field of education to accelerate the wheels of world economy. During its period of transition, there are multifarious managerial issues. They ought to be tackled prudently by the government or policymakers. Otherwise, digital transformation in higher education can never be considered as a boom but bane. Hence, it necessitates an efficient management for yielding better fruits. The current study has been undertaken to examine the Indian digital initiatives in the higher education system, identify the crucial managerial issues, and suggest remedies for improvement of the Indian higher education system via digital transformation.

scholarly journals South Africa: Challenges of Racism and Access

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Goolam Mohamedbhai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System

South Africa still faces racism in its higher education system. This article discusses some of the problems experienced recently relating to racial incidences, access, and related issues.

scholarly journals Methodology to Conceive Career Projects in the Higher Education System. Experience of Implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo del Carmen Reascos-Trujillo ◽  
Luz Marina Rodríguez-Cisneros ◽  
José Valdemar Andrade-Cadena
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to present a methodological proposal for conceiving degree projects in the higher education system. These projects integrate regulatory framework aspects of Ecuador and conceptual elements that consider new paradigms of knowledge. The methodology used consisted of participatory action research that began with an exploratory research design and academic dialogue led by a team of researchers. The methodology allowed establishing the relationship between the elements that integrate career projects with the use of hermeneutics as a method and the analysis of content as a technique for reviewing legal and conceptual documents published by the Ecuadorian Higher Education Council (CES). The next phase consisted of a process of orientation and accompaniment to work teams; while in the final phase, the result was the generation of this methodological proposal and the presentation of the projects for redesigning the agricultural and communication careers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, in Ibarra (PUCE-SI). The projects were approved and are currently offered, so that the methodology is considered validated satisfactorily. This work is very useful for the academic departments of higher education institutions because, based on legal and conceptual elements, it formulates pragmatic orientations in the identification of key aspects that allow conceiving and articulating the curriculum of career projects.

scholarly journals Present-Day Dillemas And Challenges Of The South African Tertiary System

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mouton ◽  
G. P. Louw ◽  
G. L. Strydom
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Education System ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
School Level ◽  
First Year ◽  
Exit Point ◽  
The South ◽  
Higher Education System

The Education White Paper 3 on Higher Education aimed to transform the higher education system. Change within tertiary education included adjusting the size and shape of institutions, the meaning of autonomy and accountability, the nature of higher education, the character of student demographic distribution, management and governance, roles of student politics, models of delivery, the notion of higher education in terms of the relationship between free trade and public good, programme changes and the nature of the academic workplace. At this stage, transformation in higher education is leaping outwards to fulfil the criteria set by international competitiveness and related efficiency criteria that can be attributed to globalisation pressures and to deeper factors inherent in the nature of higher education, especially in terms of its resistance to change and modernization. In this regard, the tertiary higher education system in South Africa is faced with many multi-dimensional challenges that need to be addressed in this article. This includes stating whether Grade 12 results as the outcome of this exit point at school level are, internationally speaking, a reasonable predictor of first-year academic success at university. In South Africa, there is no benchmarking of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination; therefore, first-year students have difficulty in adapting to the university environment as they find themselves devoid of indispensable bases for the pursuit of their studies and the weakness of the level of education given at school level in a large number of instances. Furthermore, five universities were placed under administration in the 2011-2012 period because of appallingly poor levels of management, which adds extra layers of suspicion to the notion of the impact of higher education in South Africa. Many other challenges are facing the South African tertiary education system, which will be analysed and recommendations arrived at that will attempt to contribute to an enhancement of tertiary education in South Africa.

scholarly journals Competition among Universities: Conceptual Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
E. Sudakova ◽  
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D. G. Sandler ◽  
T. V. Tarasyeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
System Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Significant Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Commercial Organization

The transition to the knowledge economy focused attention on the higher education system development and its problems, and put the universities in the situation of competition for limited resources. Free and controlled competition brings a chain of interrelated, sometimes contradictory concepts applied to higher education as a socially significant area. The authors of this research article by means of conceptual analysis aim at identifying the relationship between the concepts of «competition», «competitiveness», «efficiency», and «cooperation» regarding the higher education system. Competition and cooperation are considered to be factors which increase the efficiency of universities’ functioning. At the same time, there are contradictions in the justifications for the need to create competitive conditions for universities and in the definitions of the concept of efficiency, University is understood to be a commercial organization, its indicators being locked in its internal environment, whereas its main functions (reproduction of intellectual capital, improving the quality of human resources, orientation to the needs of the labor market) come to be out of sight. No less limited is the concept of competition, which is represented through the index of monopolization, calculated mostly through the proportion of students enrolled, beyond taking into account the peculiarities of the Russian higher education system. However, the works on competition and financing draw attention to the public good created by universities, which is not always tangible and requires the financial participation of the government. Thus, the discussions on universities’ competition and effectiveness in the context of their association with the commercial sector omit a number of socially significant elements of higher education and science.

scholarly journals Indian Higher Education from the Lens of National Policy of Education (1986) and National Policy on Education (2016): A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishfaq Majid
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Education System ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Policy On Education

<p>Higher education is considered as the part and parcel of education system. The Indian higher education system is getting better day by day. The Government of India while realizing the needs of today’s generations brought NPE 1986. To enhance the functioning of higher education, recommendation was given. Many recommendations were implemented but some areas were left behind. To fill this gape, the GOI again in 2016 brought another policy of education. The policy paid special importance to the areas where the previous policy was lacking. The policy gave much attention towards the areas where it was felt that a change is necessary. But many areas where emphasis was necessary were not mentioned. The paper analyses the recommendation of NPE 1986 and 2016 in the field of higher education. It makes a comparative study of the recommendations in various aspects of higher education.</p>

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