Higher Education and the Knowledge Society: Issues, Challenges and Responses in Norway and Germany

Arthur, Lore

doi:10.2304/rcie.2006.1.3.241

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“…The neo-correspondence theory concerns with increasing the skills that provide an image of what work is currently and what should be likely in the future by giving a high value to social skills, attitudes, motivation, broad knowledge, and flexibility (Nicolescu & Paun, 2009). Arthur (2006) and Little (2007) have considered the nature of graduate work that had significant changes, and they required higher education institutions to develop new skills and abilities in their students that are demanded by labor market (Nicolescu & Paun, 2009). For example, Arthur (2006) listed some skills required by employers such as analytical skills, social skills, management skills, ability to learn, and presentation skills.…”

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“…Arthur (2006) and Little (2007) have considered the nature of graduate work that had significant changes, and they required higher education institutions to develop new skills and abilities in their students that are demanded by labor market (Nicolescu & Paun, 2009). For example, Arthur (2006) listed some skills required by employers such as analytical skills, social skills, management skills, ability to learn, and presentation skills.…”

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Determinant indicators for labor market efficiency and higher education and training: evidence from Middle East and North Africa countries

Elamir

2020

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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This study aims to explore the determinant indicators for the labor market efficiency and the higher education and training factors that can help in increasing the productivity in labor market and the quality in higher education and training, as well as pays attention to important relative indicators to improve the relationship between them. To achieve these aims the canonical correlation analysis is used as a bidirectional technique that allows studying the mutual relationship between two factors by taking advantage of available reports from 2012 to 2018 published by World Economic Forum (WEF).The results indicate that the extent of staff training, internet access, quality of education, and quality of management schools are the most important indicators in higher education and training and most correlated with labor market efficiency factor. The capacity to attract talent, pay and productivity, cooperation in labor-employer relations, and reliance on professional management are the most important indicators in labor market efficiency and the most correlated with higher education and training factor. The commonality analysis gives interesting results and shows that the explained variance in labor market efficiency and higher education and training depends on common indicators rather than a unique indicator.

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Determinant indicators for labor market efficiency and higher education and training: evidence from Middle East and North Africa countries

Elamir

2020

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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“…While in many other countries this accreditation role is assigned to the universities. Over the course of the project, such cross-cultural distinctions became blurred revealing the limitations of overly simplistic and essentialist conceptualisations (Arthur 2006;Arthur et al 2007;Little and Arthur 2010). …”

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‘Ethnographic dazzle’ and the construction of the ‘Other’: revisiting dimensions of insider and outsider research for international and comparative education

McNess

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Crossley

2013

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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This paper presents some initial ideas on how the theoretical concepts of the 'insider' and the 'outsider' might be re-examined in an era where advances in comparative, qualitative research methodologies seek to be more inclusive, collaborative, participatory, reflexive and nuanced. Earlier essentialist definitions of the outsider as detached and objective, and the insider as culturally-embedded and subjective, are re-examined and set within an international research and teaching context which recognises the increased migration of people, ideas and educational policies. It is argued that, in the context of such change, it has become more difficult to categorise and label groups and individuals as being 'inside' or 'outside' systems, professional communities, or research environments. Such essentialist notions, which often underpin the production of large-scale, international datasets of pupil achievement, need to be challenged so that more complex understandings can inform, not only new methods of research design, research ethics, data collection and analysis, but also the creation of new knowledge, giving more validity to related education policymaking. We recognise that individual and group identities can be multiple, flexible and changing such that the boundary between the inside and the outside is permeable, less stable and less easy to draw. The concept of a 'third', liminal space may have the potential to encourage new meaning which is constructed on the boundary between worlds where historical, social, cultural, political, ethical and individual understandings meet.

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“…Even suing such metrics has required substantial efforts in assessing the comparability of qualifications across different national education and training systems the number (or the share) of people with diplomas doesn't provide precise information about the quality and content of their education. Nor do the qualifications tell us much about what skill levels are required at particular jobs, and data on outputs of the educational system will be shaped by macroeconomic and policy trends in specific regions or countries [Arthur, 2006;Fitz-Enz, 2009;Hall, 2008;Keeley, 2007;Lengick-Hall, 2003;Scarbrough, Elias, 2004].…”

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Graduates’ Competencies for the Innovation Labour Market

Shmatko

2013

SSRN Journal

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The paper highlights key research questions that concern skills and abilities of highly qualified personnel who are employed in the innovation related professions in the labour market. Developing a national system of competencies which would allow selecting and training personnel capable of creating and applying innovations is a very challenging task. The solution implies first of all the construction of the relevant methodologies and tools for the assessment of competencies acquired during vocational education and training and competencies required at working places. A survey of engineers conducted by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in 2011 strives for moving beyond the simple slogans of the knowledge economy and the received wisdom about shifts from low to higher skills, from blue to white collars. This study investigates how far the trend in skill requirements follows market expectations. Two large groups of highly qualified STI personnel are studied: the first includes the engineering and technical personnel with toplevel qualifications employed by industrial enterprises, the other involves the staff of research, development, design organisations whose responsibilities include R&D (а total of 3158 graduates were surveyed). The paper is organized as follows. First, the data collection approach and analysis methodology are introduced and results discussed. Second, engineering education and application of acquired skills are analysed. The paper concludes with a summary of the major findings that show the important role of 'general' competencies required from engineers at their jobs, such as selforganisation, openness to new information, the ability and willingness to learn, and communication skills.

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Higher Education and the Knowledge Society: Issues, Challenges and Responses in Norway and Germany

Abstract: This article investigates how employers and university leaders in two very different countries,

Cited by 17 publications

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Determinant indicators for labor market efficiency and higher education and training: evidence from Middle East and North Africa countries

Determinant indicators for labor market efficiency and higher education and training: evidence from Middle East and North Africa countries

‘Ethnographic dazzle’ and the construction of the ‘Other’: revisiting dimensions of insider and outsider research for international and comparative education

Graduates’ Competencies for the Innovation Labour Market

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