The paper deals with changes in tertiary education (TE) funding in 28 European countries after 2007. We focus on two aspects: first, does the public expenditure on TE change (decrease/increase) in proportion to the changes (decreases/increases) in public expenditure on education and second, did...

In this paper, we are discussing a question how to assess students’ workload, which is an important variable in the curriculum and of utmost importance in quality of teaching and learning process in higher education. However, student workload can be influenced by many different factors and at...

European higher education systems are at stake, since global economic and financial crisis emerged in 2009. The aim of the paper was to test the research question: How did higher education funding change in response to the crisis (compared with pre-crisis period)? We observed changes in higher...

The Erasmus programme has made a significant contribution to mobility in European higher education, enabling almost 3 million students and 300,000 academic staff to be mobile within the borders of Europe since 1987. In the paper, we deal with Erasmus mobility flows, in particular Erasmus Student...

In the paper we described different approaches to quality assessment of legal services, which are provided by lawyers, notaries or other legal profession. Citizens have options to make a formal complaint about poorly delivered legal services. Complaint and possible restitution can hardly effect...

This study examines the mediating role of multidimensional organizational commitment concept in determining the relationship between Big Five personality traits and job performance. A conceptual framework has been developed with multidimensional organizational commitment as a mediating variable...

In no other country does the intermediary play such an important role as in Germany. The main factors of the intermediary distribution are the bound agents, agents with permission and brokers. For a long time ago the intermediary distribution was the only distribution channel for insurance...

The article presents in a case study ideas and methodology of the preparation of knowledge engineers at the university that reflects years of experience in knowledge-based systems development. The mission of the knowledge engineers and the need of their preparation in the information and...

Changing institutional regulations and increased competitiveness in academia impose strong pressure on scholars specialized in business to improve research productivity by publishing in international impact factor journals. Our knowledge about factors that leverage success of business scholars...

Cost of equity calculation is a complex problem in corporate finance management. In practice such calculation is most often based on CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), however, world literature and experience of developed countries indicate a possibility to use many derivatives of this method...