On the Horizon: Volume 20 Issue 1

After “Watson”

Tom Abeles

This essay aims to explore the changes that will occur in both the natural and social sciences in general and education in particular with the advent of the cloud, fast computers…

Integration of education with research and development and the export of higher education

Mauri Kantola, Juha Kettunen

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework combining the approaches of the innovation pedagogy, strategic planning of higher education and the research, development and…

Keeping up with business and industry: secondary‐level career and technical education's struggle

R. Adam Manley

The purpose of this paper is to detail how the need for secondary‐level career and technical education (CTE) programs to keep up with technological change in the workplace is…

Where are we going and what are we doing? Two seemingly opposing views with a unified message about the discrepancy between organizational behavior theory and business practice

Joan F. Marques

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the need for critical review and realignment of business education as well as business practices to contemporary needs.

Reconstruct creative destruction knowledge through creative disruption

Muhammad Nizam Zainuddin, Mohd Fairuz Abd Rahim, Mohd Rozaini Mohd Rejab

With internet technology, knowledge acquisition surpasses the confinement of the university's campus or syllabus. Concurrently, an entrepreneurship programme has recently been…

Endogenous complexity, specialisation and general education

Alexander Dilger

Complexity is endogenous for humans and increasing at an accelerating rate. At the same time individual lives become better and even simpler. This seems to be a paradox for which…

Challenging the traditional idea of leadership in UAE schools

Lauren Stephenson, Robin Dada, Barbara Harold

This study aims to review the characteristics and practices of teacher leaders identified in recent literature and to investigate the impact of the professional learning process…

A curriculum model of a foundation for educating the global citizens of the future

Richard Zinser

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a model for preparing young people to live in a global society.

Is the grass greener on the other side? Experiential learning, lifelong learning and career shift

Jens Graff

The purpose of this paper is to give a more appropriate picture of the new trend of career shifts in a late career.

University futures: Wikipedia uni, core‐periphery reversed, incremental managerialism or bliss for all?

Sohail Inayatullah

The purpose of this paper is to overview the futures of the university by analyzing critical drivers. It also aims to assess drivers identified a decade ago on university futures.

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