scholarly journals Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

10.7249/mg786 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gonzalez ◽  
Lynn Karoly ◽  
Louay Constant ◽  
Hanine Salem ◽  
Charles Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Education

scholarly journals Addressing Mismatch between TVET Programs and Skill Needs in the Finance and Banking Sector – A Case Study from Qatar

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1023-1041
Author(s):  
Ziad Said ◽  
Aws Alhares
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Program Leaders

Links between Qatar’s labor market and post-secondary education are not fully effective and often result in neglected or duplicated development of human capital. Therefore, most development efforts occur in isolation involving outmoded programs with many complacent faculty unaware of new technologies and developments relevant to labor market sectors. Analyses of secondary data from government departments and international studies were combined with a survey on “Improving and enriching the Human Capital of the State of Qatar through Identification and Development of 21st Century Skills”. This explored perception of both employers and TVET program leaders toward the skills needed for economic and social development in a changing world by meeting human capital needs through 21st century skills. A total of 85 managers and professionals completed the survey, together with 35 TVET program leaders from one university and five government TVET institutions (the survey was adapted to fit the context of TVET institutions surveyed). Thirty-two of the industry managers and professionals were from Hydrocarbon and Energy, 26 from Built Environment and 27 from Banking Finance sectors. Subsequently, 32 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Descriptive statistics using T-test and effect size for comparison, showed a major mismatch between perceptions of TVET program leaders and business finance sector’ managers and professionals in many aspects of 21st century skills requirements. These were mainly in social skills and some specific technology skills. Significantly, the study indicated weak links between employers and TVET institutions. To address these issues, minimizing the skills’ mismatch can be achieved by placing greater emphasis on reforming the curricula of Qatar’s TVET institutions, to facilitate faster transitions into the workplace.

scholarly journals 21-AM KATRAL KARPPITTALIL NAAVALKALAIT TALUVI URUVAAKKAPPADUM TIRAIPPADANGGAL OOR AAIVU [21-ST CENTURY STUDY ON ADAPTATION OF NOVELS IN FILMS]

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
R. KANESAN ◽  
S. ILANGKUMARAN ◽  
T. JANSIRANI
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Written Form

21st-century education is generally used to refer certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world. However, the idea of what learning in the 21st century should look like is open to interpretation and controversy. The quality of human capital is an important component for the country. In this case, teachers have to produce multitalented generation by their teaching skill in classroom. This article is aimed at scrutinizing the transformation across genre, that is from novels to films. Seen from the perspective of literature, this effort could increase the reading motivation. The adaptation of literary into film have to be analyse to improve thinking skills among students. In relation to this, the objective of this article is to analyse the changes of written form novel into visual form of film. The result of this adaptation shows that how far literary values are adapted into visual forms. The students get more interested to read a novel and visualise it into his own imagination. They will get various interesting elements befitting the needs of today’s generation on their 21-st century studies.

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