Education

Good jobs for high school graduates no longer exist

In today’s knowledge-based economy, education beyond high school is not optional — it’s essential. The vast majority of jobs today and the future require education beyond high school.

How Obama Will Be Remembered in the Higher-Ed World

In a knowledge economy, that’s important.” The administration’s advocacy for community colleges has been unprecedented. “No one in the history of our nation has … emphasized the value of community and our technical-college education like…

Managing Minds, Winning Hearts

In the 21st-century knowledge economy, we produce knowledge and know-how, and need to manage people who must continuously learn in dramatically new ways.

This webcast will show you why and how companies worldwide are changing the way they manage…

Bridging Higher Ed’s Rhetoric & Reality in a Changing World — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation —

But our view of “what counts” as higher education is far too limited and parochial, our existing delivery systems are too leaden and inflexible, and new ways of…

We are working to build a worldwide Knowledge Economy coalition to help spread knowledge via

Copying Singapore’s Math Homework Wendy Kopp, www.wsj.com

TAFE’s need to step up and be proactive on research

Seizing that opportunity could help secure their financial future as well as meeting an unmet need in the knowledge economy, he told last week’s TAFE NSW seminar on higher education.

‘Mismatch between job market and education system’

KUALA LUMPUR: While Malaysia aspires to be a high income nation driven by a knowledge economy by 2020, the country still faces a mismatch between the job market and the education system, particularly in the area involving technical and soft…