Training students for new jobs: The role of technical and vocational higher education and implications for science policy in Portugal

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 328-340

  Hasanefendic, Sandra ^a,b,d   Heitor, Manuel ^a   Horta, Hugo ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

problem based learning; short term research; stakeholder engagement; technical and vocational higher education; Training the labour force

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HIGHER EDUCATION; LABOUR FORCE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; SHORT TERM; STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT;

EDUCATION;

HIGHER EDUCATION; LABOR; RESEARCH METHOD; STAKEHOLDER; STUDENT; TRAINING; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84956681057     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.12.005     Document Type: Article

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