Financial Literacy Skills for the 21st Century: Evidence from PISA

Communication Skills for the 21st Century Engineer

Engineering graduates require an ever-increasing range of skills to maintain relevance with the global environment of the new millennium. Communication skills are a vital component of this, recognised by academia and industry alike. It is one of 11 key outcomes required by an undergraduate engineering programme in the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 [1]. Such skills are essential for an engineer...

Information literacy: the key competency for the 21st century

Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a national policy, advocacy, and research organization created to help middle and high school students receive an excellent education. The Alliance focuses on America's six million most at-risk secondary school students–those in the lowest achievement quartile–who are likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive futu...

Three skills every 21st-century manager needs.

Over the past decade companies have become more global and employee groups more diverse than ever before. Organizations are less hierarchical and more collaborative. And today's offices are full of once unimaginable technological distractions. We asked experts in cross-cultural communication, information networks, and the science of attention what skills executives should cultivate to tackle th...

Management Accounting Education for the 21st Century Firms

Management accounting has become a subject of hot debates over the last four decades and has undergone a major transformation. It is argued that traditional management accounting roles have either disappeared or been changed. The debate is based on the belief that roles of ‘Management Accountants’ require new forms of education and training,  with more emphasis on the practicality of the subjec...