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Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand little about the causal effects, the causal pathways, the role of contexts and the relative impacts that different educational interventions have on social outcomes. This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement. Education may reduce inequalities by fostering cognitive, social and emotional skills and promoting healthy lifestyles, participatory practices and norms. These efforts are most likely to be successful when family and community environments are aligned with the efforts made in educational institutions. This calls for ensuring policy coherence across sectors and stages of education.
Education -- Research. --- Educational innovations. --- Health education. --- Education --- Medical care --- Social aspects --- Social aspects.
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National research systems face an increasingly competitive environment for ideas, talent and funds, and governments have shifted funds from institutional core funding to project funding, often on a competitive basis, or reward success in raising third-party funds in performance-based funding schemes. It is in this context that “research excellence initiatives” (REIs) have emerged. This is an instrument designed to encourage outstanding research by providing large-scale, long-term funding to designated research units. They provide funds for research and research-related measures, such as the improvement or extension of physical infrastructure, the recruitment of outstanding researchers from abroad and researcher training. This report presents new evidence on how governments steer and fund public research in higher education and public research institutions through REIs. The report can help inform discussions on future government policy directions by providing information on how REIs work and on the functioning and characteristics of institutions that host centres of excellence. The findings show some of the benefits to be gained through REIs and note some pitfalls to be avoided.
Education -- Research. --- Proposal writing for grants. --- Research grants. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Research. --- Grants --- Grants, Research --- Grant proposal writing --- Grant writing --- Grantsmanship --- Grantwriting --- Educational research --- Grants-in-aid --- Scholarships --- Subsidies --- Federal aid to research --- Authorship --- Grantmaking
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Drawing from doctoral level research on how best to teach business education to college students, Discourses on Business Education at the College Level illustrates new and proven ideas for engaging students. Sixteen authors from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development describe their experiences in upgrading and expanding the quality of the business education experience. Business school instructors can use this edited collection to draw inspiration and learn specific techniques to bring their courses to the cutting edge of curriculum. Topics range from teaching accounting, financial literacy, marketing, and teamwork to gamification, improving international student and intern experience, not-for credit education, and virtual workplace learning.
Business education --- Business --- Commercial education --- Education, Business --- Education --- Study and teaching --- E-books --- Business education. --- Business schools. --- MBA. --- Master of Business Administration. --- New York University. --- PhD student output. --- accounting. --- business. --- collaborative publication. --- college business education instruction. --- college business school curricula. --- curriculum design. --- economics. --- education research. --- improving business education. --- learning outcomes. --- management. --- methodology. --- pedagogy. --- postgraduate education. --- research on college business students. --- teaching.
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Education policies and systems in all OECD countries are coming under increasing pressure to show greater accountability and effectiveness and it is crucial that educational policy decisions are made based on the best evidence possible. This book brings together international experts on evidence-informed policy in education from a wide range of OECD countries. The report looks at the issues facing educational policy makers, researchers, and stakeholders – teachers, media, parents – in using evidence to best effect. It focuses on the challenge of effective brokering between policy makers and researchers, offers specific examples of major policy-related research, and presents perspectives from several senior politicians. This book provides a fresh outlook on key issues facing policy makers, researchers and school leaders today
Education -- Research. --- Education and state. --- Education. --- Research and development contracts, Government. --- Education --- Education and state --- Research --- Government R and D contracts --- Government research and development contracts --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Government policy --- Defense contracts --- Military research --- Public contracts --- Science and state --- Technology and state --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Research and development contracts --- Contrats de recherche et de développement --- Recherche --- Politique gouvernementale
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In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of 'knowledge for development' in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content. This book follows up on that event. The conference highlighted the usefulness of presenting the value of Norhed's different projects to the world, showing how they improve knowledge and expand access to it through co-operation. A wish for more meta-knowledge was also expressed and this gives rise to the following questions: Is this way of co-operating contributing to the growth of independent post-colonial knowledge production in the South, based on analyses of local data and experiences in ways that are relevant to our shared future? Does the growth of academic independence, as well as greater equality, and the ability to develop theories different to those imposed by the better-off parts of the world, give rise to deeper understandings and better explanations? Does it, at least, spread the ability to translate existing methodologies in ways that add meaning to observations of local context and data, and thus enhance the relevance and influence of the academic profession locally and internationally? This book, in its varied contributions, does not provide definite answers to these questions but it does show that Norhed is a step in the right direction. Norhed is an attempt to fund collaboration within and between higher education institutions. We know that both the uniqueness of this programme, and ideas of how to better utilise the learning and experience emerging from it, call for more elaboration and broader dissemination before we can offer further guidance on how to do things better. This book is a first attempt.
Community development. --- Education, Higher. --- Education and state. --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Government policy --- Citizen participation --- Education, Higher --- Study and teaching. --- Norwegian Programme for Higher Education, Research, and Training. --- South Africa. --- Norske universitetsråd. --- Norwegian Council of Universities' Committee for Development Research and Education --- Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education --- Norwegian Programme for Research and Education --- NUFU --- Norske universitetsråd --- Africa, South --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Effect of education on --- E-books --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man
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