Global competence is increasing in prominence at multiple levels of education, including secondary and postsecondary. Often, though, there seems to be a disconnect between these levels, when instead ...

Key skills have become an essential factor for employment, particularly because of their cross-cutting nature. The thesis attempts to demonstrate this and to identify, through statistical analysis, ...

An important instrument for ensuring the implementation of gender mainstreaming throughout the United Nations is competence development, i.e. the development of awareness, knowledge, commitment and ...

Educators around the world are rethinking the ways in which they prepare students for learning, work, and citizenship in a global society that requires individuals to effectively engage with each ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

A workplace competency is a description of a required skill, attribute or behavior for a specific job used to define and measure an individual's effectiveness. Competencies are arranged into a ...

Rwanda is set to introduce a national competency and certification framework for procurement professionals in response to growing concerns over skills gaps, increasing procurement complexity, and ...