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

World Bank

World Bank

关键词: ACADEMIC DEGREES;    ACADEMIC PROGRAMS;    ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS;    ACADEMIC SKILLS;    ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-8490-9
RP-ID  :  64952

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

A fundamental question facing East Asia,especially its low- and middle income economies, is how tosustain or even accelerate the growth of recent decades.From 1950 to 2005, for example, the region's realincome per head rose sevenfold. With aging populations,these economies will need to derive an increasing share ofgrowth from productivity improvements rather than fromphysical factor accumulation to drive growth. The bookargues that higher education is failing to deliver skillsfor growth and research for innovation because of widespreaddisconnects between higher education institutions and otherskill and research users and providers. These disconnectsundermine the very functioning of the higher educationsystem. The main assumption of the report is that to deliverlabor market skills to higher education graduates, theseinstitutions: (a) must have characteristics that are alignedwith what employers and employees need; and (b) must be wellconnected among themselves and other skills providers.Similarly, to deliver research that can enhance innovationand productivity, higher education institutions need to havea strong role in research provision and have strong linkswith firms and other research providers.