Evans:

Usually the higher education institutions supply the skills and knowledge needed for national development. As such, the programmes offered should be align to national development needs. The latter means having a collaborative relationship with those in government and industry so that graduates of tertiary institutions can adequately fill jobs created thru national development. I have not done much research in this area but I can share with you how internationals students who study abroad do not necessarily return equipped to contribute to national development due to low learning transfer as a result of a developed host-country curricula (the other side of the coin). 

Best regards,

Debra

Data Generation I: International and invisible in a workforce edu...

Evans:

Usually the higher education institutions supply the skills and knowledge needed for national development. As such, the programmes offered should be align to national development needs. The latter means having a collaborative relationship with those in government and industry so that graduates of tertiary institutions can adequately fill jobs created thru national development. I have not done much research in this area but I can share with you how internationals students who study abroad do not necessarily return equipped to contribute to national development due to low learning transfer as a result of a developed host-country curricula (the other side of the coin). 

Best regards,

Debra

Data Generation I: International and invisible in a workforce edu...

Dear Evans,

The topic you are interested is so large that it would be very difficult to get the best suggestions. Please try to be more specific about your interests. Higher education is related to the policies and strategies the Government would like to promote and the structure of the higher education system in terms of state and private universities, their numbers and their vision and mission.

Many higher education researchers and influential national reports issued over the last two decades have asserted that such educational practices cannot produce the complex kinds of student outcomes required today by employers and for effective citizenship. The shift from a tradition-based, primarily atheoretical educational process to a research- and theory-based process will require not only constant innovation to incorporate new findings about learning but also the high-quality faculty and staff professional development necessary to support this innovation throughout each teacher's and manager's career.

http://www.thenationalacademy.org/readings/facdev.html

Hi Evans ! I interprete your question as "how realizing a good education for people", I mean efficent and permitting education for everybody (this for equality or productivity : if you let the people without education you let the value falling for your contry)

If you are convinced (or not !) you can read the sociologist "Boudon". He has found the principal way of inequality over poverty : "the lack of ambition" and idea of people you meet (If you are poor your aim is lower than if you are rich). If the system or society in charge of helping people has a pessimistic attitude, the result is Worse. Have a nice work !

Many procedures required at different levels. At the higher education system level, you need a prepare a national policy that made in concert with all stakeholders. At the institutional level, leadership is required urgently with another requirements. But the leadership will remains the critical element. At schools and faculty level ( Operational Level), you need to make change at organizational level to adjust with the national policy, to reconsider staffing and employment procedures. Finance, issues related to accreditation, knowledge and technology transfer, international activities ..etc also required to be addressed. 

BR

Shoukry

Hello Evans

There is no stand-alone theory of national higher education in the vast majority of countries. Higher education models not only vary across nations but also within nations. That said, in a totalitarian nation, it might be possible to find  a "one-size-fits-all " programme of higher education. In addition, certain professions (e.g. teaching, medicine and law) are likely to keep to certain core criteria within a nation. Best wishes, Paul