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Hospitality Education: Prevalent Perceptions, Matt A. Casado
Hospitality Education: Prevalent Perceptions, Matt A. Casado
Hospitality Review
The composition of hospitality curricula has been debated by educators, alumni, and industry professionals for the last 30 years. Some higher education programs have emphasized the teaching of professional courses, while others have focused primarily on management. This study recalls highlights of curriculum research conducted since the late 1970s and provides current perceptions of alumni, lodging, and restaurant professionals on core, support, and advisor-approved electives.
Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung
Education, Technological Progress And Economic Growth, Winston T. H. Koh, Hing-Man Leung
Research Collection School Of Economics
An important role of education – and the resultant accumulation of human capital – for a less-developed economy is to facilitate technology diffusion in order for it to catch up with developed economies. This paper presents a model linking education, the accumulation of physical capital and technological progress. In the model, investment in education and the accumulation of physical capital are complementary, and intertwine with the technology progress through related effects on technology diffusion and the expansion of the technology frontier. The allocation of effort to education, the optimal savings rate and the technology gap are endogenously determined in the …