Higher educational institutions have been compelled by market forces to be more responsive to the needs of their students as well as the demands of different stakeholders government, industry, professional bodies, and community. The inclusion of WIL (Work-Integrated Learning) curriculum in Australian university programs has become a common strategy to address increasing demands for more practic...

High-performance computing (HPC) plays very important role in the sphere of information technology as well as defines the strategic direction for interand trans-disciplinary breakthroughs ensuring the essential influence on local and global markets. The current status of HPC systems development in different countries is analyzed in the paper. The constraints for an active involvement the HPC in...

The development of ICTs in society results in the emergence of new jobs and changes in existi ng jobs and calls for new curricula at all levels of educati on. Because of changes in society, it is necessary for students to master ICT literacy to become full-fl edged members of society. While the potenti al of ICTs as a medium for teaching and learning is recognized by many, the implementati on o...

Are business schools delivering on their promise to industry? What steps should take make curriculum more relevant, faculty effective, and research impactful?

The demand for information technology (IT) professionals has grown rapidly in the last decade. Parallel to this increasing need for IT personnel is the continuous change in the type of skills that are brought about by innovations in cutting edge technologies. However, the type of new IT skills and knowledge needed to keep companies competitive in the global market extend beyond the ability to a...

outh African has a population of approximately 39 million people, with eleven officially recognized languages in the country. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. South Africa is considered a middle-income country, with a gross national product per capita of $3,520 in 1996 (World Bank1998:14); it is therefore one of the wealthier countries in Africa...

We examine career patterns within the industrial, academic, and governmental sectors and their relation to the publication and patent productivity of scientists and engineers working at university-based research centers in the United States. We hypothesize that among university scientists, intersectoral changes in jobs throughout the career provide access to new social networks and scientific a...

INTRODUCTION Case-based learning (CBL) is suggested as a key educational method of knowledge acquisition to improve dental education. The purpose of this study was to assess graduates from a patient-oriented, case-based learning (CBL)-based curriculum as regards to key competencies required at their professional activity. METHODS 407 graduates from a patient-oriented, case-based learning (CBL...

The service sector now accounts for more jobs globally than either manufacturing or agriculture. Continued growth of the service sector requires service innovations that raise service quality and productivity. Even large manufacturing firms are getting more and more of their revenue from offering services. Yet creating service innovations reliably is difficult, particularly for knowledge-intens...

The demand for enterprise systems skills is increasing persistent enterprise systems skill shortages. One explanation for the skills shortages is the gap between enterprise systems curricula in higher education institutions and the competencies expected from graduates by industry. A contemporary South African study identified interpersonal and business process competencies as key skills require...