[PDF] Top 20 Higher education and knowledge economy: a focus on Nigeria

... by Nigeria becoming a producer of high technology, not just a net ...in Nigeria need to be encouraged and adequately funded so that they can carry out scientific research and development, like other ... See full document

... interviewees have been contacted based on their job position and their area of research. For deciding which person to contact the internet was used to gather information about the persons and find out whether they have ... See full document

... the focus of a study researcher analyzed and diagnosed, and developing appropriate solutions through a combination (Mattawa, 1986), the development of appropriate combination that gives solution years of the ... See full document

... publications has increased over the past 15 years, tripling across 26 African countries from 10,082 in 1996 to 33,825 in 2010 (Arencibia-Jorge, 2012) with Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa ... See full document

... Excellence Framework (TEF) – this system aims to assess teaching quality in HEIs to raise standards and allow students to make more informed choices. HEIs gaining a TEF award will be allowed to raise their fees in line ... See full document

... of education for the purpose of and in service to the national economy is ...constructs knowledge and those involved in its production as a useful and necessary, albeit meaningless, resource— as fuel  ... See full document

... encourage higher education institutions to provide an appropriately trained ...policy focus firmly on the supply-side of the labour market; an orientation that, at least partly, assumes that where ... See full document

... with education and training providers in both the VET and HE sectors in ...HE education providers have to working across sectors, and what factors are required for cross-sectoral partnerships to be ... See full document

... the knowledge-based economy, government policies pertaining to education and science, as well as industry and technology, would have to account for the pivotal role of organizations, the significance ... See full document

... the economy and the market-moving tangents, in- cluding universities, what seems to exist is the imbalance between the for-profit production method and the social organization of the countries in which re- sources ... See full document

... transfer knowledge to their pupil in the most effective way. Education also needs a sense of ...management education should be to turn out students as capable managers who can take a worthy stand in ... See full document

... There has been a paradigm shift from paper record keeping to electronic record keeping. It is important to build good record keeping into new systems. This is the information era and a period when virtually every ... See full document

... on higher education has fallen drastically with the decline of the welfare state and the globalization of the ...of higher education as the production of informed citizens, only skills ... See full document

... an economy (Horta et ...about knowledge-based innovations (Abu Bakar et ...Simultaneously, higher education institutes have a growing interest in achieving strategic goals through improved ... See full document

... of education delivered in private higher ...of education delivered by private higher education institutions , we can’t judge that the level of quality experienced in private ... See full document

... First of all, HEIs must become themselves digital organizations in order to provide digital teaching, digital learning, digital experiences, and finally, digital skills for their students. Becoming digital organizations ... See full document

... UK higher education institutions, the size of the sector as a whole, its sources of income, the employment it creates, and the export earnings it ...primary focus of the study is the activity of the ... See full document

... within higher education institutions 1 ...of education being taught can therefore be questioned (Pocklington and Tupper, ...perspectives focus on economy and the marketplace and having ... See full document

... possess. Knowledge Management (KM) refers to a system of acquiring, creating, applying, storing and disseminating knowledge to every individual to achieve institutional ...objectives. Knowledge ... See full document

... for higher education. Higher education (HE) is becoming challenged by the pressures of massification, increasing forms of accountability and competition, new stakeholder expectations, and ... See full document