Description: Putting Higher Education to Work : Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia

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Putting Higher Education to Work : Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia

A fundamental question facing East Asia, especially its low- and middle income economies, is how to sustain or even accelerate the growth of recent decades. From 1950 to 2005, for example, the region's real income per head rose sevenfold. With...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ACADEMIC DEGREES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS ACADEMIC SKILLS ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION ADULT LITERACY APPLIED RESEARCH BACKGROUND PAPERS BENEFITS TO SOCIETY BLOCK GRANTS CALL CAREER COGNITIVE SKILLS COLLEGE EDUCATION COLLEGES COMPETITIVE GLOBAL ECONOMY COMPLETION RATE COMPLETION RATES CREATIVE THINKING CURRICULUM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM REFORM DIPLOMAS DISCIPLINES DISTANCE LEARNING DOCTORAL DEGREES EDUCATED WORKERS EDUCATED WORKFORCE EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION EXPENDITURE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION MINISTERS EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS EMPLOYMENT ENROLLMENT RATES ENROLLMENT RATIO ENROLLMENT RATIOS ETHNIC MINORITIES FACULTY MEMBERS FORMAL EDUCATION FUNCTIONAL SKILLS GENERIC SKILLS GER GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE GLOBAL MARKET GROSS ENROLLMENT GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIO GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIOS HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS HIGHER EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION SCHEME HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION MARKETS HIGHER EDUCATION OUTCOMES HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME-CONTINGENT INCOME-CONTINGENT LOANS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTIONAL AUTONOMY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET NEEDS LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIBERAL EDUCATION LIFE SKILLS LITERACY LITERATURE LOCAL LABOR MARKET LOW ENROLLMENT RATES MATHEMATICS NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NUMERACY PARITY PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION SYSTEMS PRIVATE EXPENDITURE PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS PRIVATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS PROBLEM SOLVING PROFESSIONAL DEGREE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROFICIENCY PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PUBLIC TERTIARY EDUCATION PUBLIC UNIVERSITY QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY OF LIFE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR INDIVIDUALS READING READING ACHIEVEMENT RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH FUNCTIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH OUTPUT RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES RESEARCHERS RETURN TO EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SCIENCE STUDY SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLS SHOW HOW SKILL ACQUISITION SKILL DEVELOPMENT SKILL LEVELS SKILLED LABOR SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIALIZATION STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT LOAN STUDENT LOANS SUBJECT AREAS TEACHING TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY GAP TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TERTIARY EDUCATION TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEMS TERTIARY ENROLLMENT TERTIARY ENROLLMENTS TERTIARY GRADUATES TERTIARY LEVEL TERTIARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT TERTIARY STUDENT ENROLLMENTS TERTIARY STUDENTS TUITION TUITION FEES UNEMPLOYMENT RATES UNIVERSITY DEGREES UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL UNIVERSITIES VOCATIONAL EDUCATION VOCATIONAL TRAINING YOUNG PEOPLE
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Summary:	A fundamental question facing East Asia, especially its low- and middle income economies, is how to sustain or even accelerate the growth of recent decades. From 1950 to 2005, for example, the region's real income per head rose sevenfold. With aging populations, these economies will need to derive an increasing share of growth from productivity improvements rather than from physical factor accumulation to drive growth. The book argues that higher education is failing to deliver skills for growth and research for innovation because of widespread disconnects between higher education institutions and other skill and research users and providers. These disconnects undermine the very functioning of the higher education system. The main assumption of the report is that to deliver labor market skills to higher education graduates, these institutions: (a) must have characteristics that are aligned with what employers and employees need; and (b) must be well connected among themselves and other skills providers. Similarly, to deliver research that can enhance innovation and productivity, higher education institutions need to have a strong role in research provision and have strong links with firms and other research providers.