Encompassing Learning through Life Cycles in the Book Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy: Challenge for Developing Countries

Teacher will have various duties related to the role, but not all of them have to be followed by the Teaching and Learning Cycle.

Reflect on and self assess your current achievements of Engineers Australia’s Stage 1 Professional Competencies

Lifelong learning is simply the process of developing an individual's skills and abilities throughout the duration of their career. In a society predicated on capitalism, competition can arise from anywhere. Corporations must be prepared to defend their competitive advantages relative to their peers within the industry. Lifelong learning is one method in which to do so. By properly training individuals within the corporation, the organization as a whole becomes better. Personnel can become more efficient with their thought process and decision making skills. In addition through the use of cross functional training, personnel can gain skills in completing different fields such as human resources and public relations. This learning through cross functional teams is beneficial for two primary reasons. First, through learning other aspects of the corporation, personnel have a better idea of how their respective contributions add to the organization as a whole. As such, these individuals, through lifelong learning, can make better decisions based primarily on their implications for the entire organization. Secondly, solutions to company problems are garnered through a litany of different sources. Through knowledge gained through lifelong learning, personnel can also help innovate within the organization in a more efficient manner. These innovations will ultimately solve issues within the company that are a result

Human Capital Theory suggests that the economic value of individuals within an economy is derived through their level of education, and that investing in education will improve the quality of workers, thus the wealth of the economy (Cowen & Tabarrok, 2012). The theory argues that education is the reason why an individual develops human capital skills, and that without these years of education the ability to receive higher earnings would not occur. Human capital theory encompasses the idea of learning, and not just through textbooks, but learning how to behave socially. Social skills that are learnt through education increase an individual’s chance of earning a higher income, and provides them with transferrable skills when entering the labour market. Human capital theory is a long-term investment, and without higher education the labour market will eventually filter through the productiveness of these individuals, and will be reflected through lower earnings in the long run. This theory can be supported through economies such as China, South Korea and

If government spends money for education and training, people will be more useful and more productive. Governments in Europe pay for the very good bulk of primary, secondary and higher education. They spent billions of dollars for the education. “The quality of education a country provides for its citizens has a large impact on its economic growth.” Years ago, most of the British people could read and write, but very few students, only 9 per cent were studying over 14 years and 2 per cent over 16 years. Nowadays over 15 per cent undergo higher education and at least 86% received secondary school. (Krugman, Wells, Graddy ). Another example is Luxemburg. In primary school everybody are learning French, later on in secondary school everybody are learning German and higher education they are learning English. It is not enough to be rich, but people should be clever as well. But unfortunately education is a very common weakness in poor countries. Such as in Congo, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, 65 per

Education systems comprise of three main parts, formal, nonformal, and informal education. To understand why informal education is getting more and more relevant today, one must first be clear as to what the definitions of each is. The problematics of formal education are giving way to non formal/informal education so a distinction must be made first and foremost. I will then go on to discuss the example of Saudi Aramco and how it integrated education as a prerequisite for its employees and even non employees. I chose this topic because, first and foremost, my father has been and still is an employee at Saudi Aramco for the past 33 years, but also because the particular company has not left a stone untouched when it comes to encouraging “self-development”. This is a word I used to see all the time growing up in Saudi Aramco, where I was born. I never really knew how important this term was until I came to AUB. Also, my father spent the first 10+ years at Aramco teaching employees everything from Chemistry to Math and English and even how to type! But first, definitions:

As far as understanding what exactly works towards helping the poorer countries develop, it seems as though the West does not know what to do. Education is craved by the inhabitants of these countries but the type of education they are receiving is not relevant to their current lifestyle. Education must provide solutions in both the short and long term. Heatley (1979) shows how volunteers go into Third World countries with idealistic values of how they can help do some good by teaching children who are actually keen to learn, whereas realistically a very academically based education does not relate to what is required to develop the country. Without a doubt, the children of the developing world have a right to a good education, to be ambitious about their potential career, but in the meantime, they need to be able to survive in their own country to allow it to economically grow or any dreams of a successful job will not come true. If they have both the academic and basic survival qualities, they

Economic globalization provides ever-increasing number of chances for educational reform on a global scale. A global educational programme could achieve investment from foreign investors or corporations from overseas. Abundant teaching and studying resources can be easily shared through networks. Educational evaluation systems varying in different countries have been put on a standardized track. Being operated under the global context, the internationalization of education also fully exerts its potential on solving some problems emerging during the process of globalization. The achievement of global educational innovation and revolution ultimately serve for globalization.

Globalization is causing a lot of changes in the human life style. It has changed a whole lot of things in the world and education is also one of them. Globalization has opened a lot of new doors for the world to come at the same stage and exchange the ideas. It has a lot of opportunity when it comes to regional and cultural renewal because the community looks for an identity at local as well as the global level. The intellectual and organisational structures to develop learning cultures are offered by the sustainable educational practices. These structures are sensitive to both types of learning’s be it at the local level needs of the people or at the macro level of development in human society. These structures help in defining and developing ways to improve on both the levels and thus help in an overall holistic development of the society and show us a way to our bright future.

Fagerlind, Ingemar and Saha, Lawrence, J. (1986). Education and National Development: A Comparative Perspective, New York: Pergamon Press.

Plato stated that education and learning should continue until the age of 40 in B.C. 385. Many would now fell that he put too early a date on its closure. However the whole of life is learning therefore education can have no endings (Lindeman, 1926: 181). Why human being learn has a basic response; change is all around us and it affects everything on the world. To keep step with changes, people need to learn to keep up with change. As Kolb (1984) mentioned learning is people’s primary mode of adaptation to change. It is not only people who learn and try to adapt themselves, organisations can also be regarded as entities which are capable of learning and adapting to changes. Knowledge is an asset and core competence for both human and organisations and provides competitive advantage to them. Especially after 1990s, the world has started a new and fast transition process which is known as globalisation. Due to the fact that business globalisation has affected every organisations, they have to depend qualified employee force that is known as professionals (knowledge workers) if they desire to remain sustainable competitive advantage by knowing how to do. Fast changes in today’s world, people try to acquire newest knowledge for tomorrow’s success and technical skills to alive (Handy, 1993). Knowledge work is characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes that needs to ability to learn and continue learning for individuals and for organisations (Huczynski, Buchanan, 2007).

In the developing countries of the world, the governments are giving priority to primary education for increasing literacy rate.  Secondary education which provides critical  skills needed for economic developed remains neglected. Another problem related to investment in education is that in the public and private sectors there is a mushroom growth of universities without trying to improve their standard of education. There are also mass failures at primary, secondary & higher levels of education resulting in wastage of the scarce resources of the countries.

ABSTRACT Our global economy now relies on brainpower and innovation rather than manual labor and raw material as a generator of wealth and good education has become the key part in shaping the success of the countries. Over the last decade, t h e I T revolution has brought in advancement that shows increasingly visible effects on the education with the

Globalization is a foreseeable phenomenon in human history which has been bringing the world together through the exchange of goods and products, information, knowledge and culture (World Bank, 2013). Governments may decide to avoid it or accept it, but in either ways they cannot overlook the extensive impact it has on different sectors, mainly economy, and education is not an exception.

Lifelong Learning: The rapid pace of change has meant that there is an imperative need to engage in lifelong learning. With the knowledge base not only expanding but also rising, it is vital for professionals and managers to constantly update and upgrade themselves to prevent morphing into unemployables of tomorrow. This also signifies that most people knowledge will become obsolete by the middle of their career.