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PurposeThis paper aims to understand the development track of skills mismatch research and discover the hidden internal connections between literature.Design/methodology/approachThe authors gathered data through scientometric quantitative analysis using CiteSpace. Specifically, this article applied basic analysis, journal cocitation analysis (JCA), author cocitation analysis (ACA) and document cocitation analysis (DCA), cluster analysis, citation burstness detection, scientific research cooperation analysis and coconcurrence analysis of keywords of 3,125 documents from Web of Science core collections for the period 2000–2020.FindingsThrough the document cocitation analysis and the keywords' co-occurrence, this article identifies influential scholars, documents, research institutions, journals and research hotspots in research on the skills mismatch phenomenon. The results showed that the publications had ballooned, and the phenomenon has become an interdisciplinary research subject. The USA and Finland remain the main contributors, which is attributed to their high-yield institutions such as the University of Helsinki, the University of Witwatersrand, the University of Washington and so on. While the African continent lacks research on skills mismatch even with the continent’s effort to overcome such a crucial issue. The paper presents an in-depth analysis of skills and educational mismatch issues to better understand the evolutionary trajectory of the collective knowledge over the past 20 years and highlight the areas of active pursuit.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors only used Web of Science core collection to collect data; however, they can added Scopus indexed database as well to extend the research trends and explore more new research hot topics to solve the skills mismatch phenomenon.Originality/valueThe scientometric analysis is of great significance for identifying the potential relationship between the literature and investigating the knowledge evolution of skills mismatch research. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Labor Organization and the World Health Organization are the giants who are mostly concerned of the mismatch skills phenomenon. Researchers can refer to this study to understand the status quo, gaps and research trends to deal with the skills mismatch issue.

The pursuit of education for sustainable development (ESD) integration is imperative for appraising the implications and progress of the educational plan. Teachers are critical agents in delivering sustainable development content in formal education.Consequently, understanding the teachers' perspective is necessary for integration. This study analyses teachers' insights on integrating education for sustainable development. The teachers filled out a questionnaire concerning sustainable development, and data analysis revealed that teachers have positive awareness, poor attitudes and a detrimental state of behaviour towards sustainable development. The four focus group discussions were conducted to congregate teachers' perspicacity for sustainability education integration. The participant perceived reform in student-teacher curricula, teacher's training programs, and embedding sustainability-related subject content as an elementary enabler. They emphasised the vitality of administrative inputs and the government's role in successful integration. Three interlocking (educative, administrative and government) dimensions were advocated for sustainability integration in the school educative process.

Due to globalization, developing countries' companies have a growing need for creative thinking. Consequently, education systems should adjust to societal requirements and improve learning outcomes by incorporating teaching approaches that encourage creative thinking. A study involving eighteen public elementary school teachers (ESTs) aimed to identify their viewpoints regarding enhancing creative thinking and the roles played by home and school environments in developing students' potential for creativity. The study uncovered seven themes, including the importance of creative thinking, the roles of teachers and the curriculum, teaching methods, challenges faced in implementation, the school environment, and the role of education department in promoting creative thinking. While acknowledging the importance of creative thinking, teachers lacked the essential skills to promote it efficiently. Additionally, creative thinking promotion in schools and the curriculum was inadequate. To address this issue, it is essential to train teachers, equip schools with appropriate resources, and enhance the curriculum to foster creative thinking in students.

Purpose This study aims to assess the socio-cognitive transformation and subject knowledge development of international students studying in China's universities with diverse learning environment. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected through on-line survey and quantitative approach was adopted on a Likert scale to assess students' cognitive and social development as a responsible mind-set, ethical awareness, understanding cultural diversity and subject knowledge development. The assessment scale consisted of 25 statements to cover the foundational indicators that represent socio-cognitive transformation. The questionnaire was pilot tested for internal consistency by calculating Cronbach’s alpha. Furthermore, exploratory factor analysis was applied to ensure the traits of the construct intended to measure. A total of 316 participants responded to the survey. With descriptive statistics, X2 of association and Friedman’s two-way analysis of variance by rank was applied to test the hypothesis. Findings This study argues that diverse learning environment has positive impact on learners’ socio-cognitive transformation. It enhances students' capability to understand cultural values to accept diversity and awareness about global community issues and also subject knowledge skill development. Originality/value In the current century, study abroad programs have increased the mobility of international students, and the role of higher education institutions has become immense, multifaceted and dynamic. Universities are taking a position to play a considerable role in creating learning opportunities for awareness of societal issues and transform social behavior. Studying abroad programs is a growing concept in response to learners' cogitative and socialized transformation. There is an absence of research conducted to explore the impact of a diverse cultural environment on the socio-cognitive transformation of international students. Therefore, the current study focused on exploring the cognitive and societal development of international students studying in China.

Total Quality Management is a concept which any educational institution can attain through a variety of critical success factors. This concept is one of the steps necessary to maximize success in improving quality in higher education institutions. Hence, this qualitative study used a semi-structured interview, endeavors to identify and analyze some of the critical success factors which have significant impact in Moroccan public higher education institutions under the framework of Total Quality Management. As a result of in-depth semi-structured interviews with three experienced university professors in selected public universities in the economical capital city of Morocco, this study is contributing to the literature by empirically determining the critical success factors of the TQM mostly needed in the public higher education institutions. The findings of this study bring an understanding of how certain critical factors are perceived in the Moroccan public higher education context. In addition to expand the body of the current literature, the study findings also provide knowledge that can be used as a basis to address the management needs of quality in higher education institutions. In addition, this study is the first of its kind to be addressed in the Moroccan setting / North African region.

The evaluation indicator of teachers’ scientific research is a very important criterion in the evaluation of teachers’ scientific research in colleges and universities. Generally, indicators are divided into three levels, and each indicator setting must be very precise. Many indicator systems for college teachers have been created at present. However, there are some problems in the identification of indicators in the evaluation process. There will be cross-repetition between indicators, and the quantification of indicators is not detailed enough, resulting in inaccurate results. To solve these problems and make the evaluation results more fair and accurate, this paper took a university as a case, a deeply discussed method based on wireless communication network, and conducts an experimental analysis on the identification of university teachers’ scientific research evaluation indicators. Using the method of wireless communication network, the problem of index identification was analyzed, and the experimental research of index identification was carried out by using wireless communication network. The results showed that the index of engineering teachers’ practical ability was relatively high, and the weight value was 0.38. The liberal arts was relatively low, and the weight value was only 0.26. However, on the cognitive index, the weight value of liberal arts was the highest, with the weight value of 0.33 while that of engineering was only 0.28. It can be seen that the method applied in this paper greatly improved the efficiency of the whole evaluation, and it made the index recognition more rapid and accurate. Therefore, further research on wireless communication networks and index identification can be considered.