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Higher Education Funding Issues: U.S. / UK Comparison
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper compares and contrasts higher education funding sources and systems in the U.S. and the UK. The issues raised in the paper pertain to the major challenge of academia: finding financial support in times of limited resources and enhanced competition. The issues discussed throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061672
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A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Mansur, Kasim; Jubok, Zainodin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this era of globalisation, most university curriculum requires new sets of settings and arrangements. Universiti … students and faculties as the basis in ensuring a harmonious existence within and outside the campus. Most of the curriculum in … building and curriculum development programmes. This paper examines how the forces of globalisation have transformed its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837241
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The economics curriculum in Australian Universities 1980 to 2011
Thornton, Tim B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the recent evolution of the Australian economics curriculum. First, it examines 2011 survey … broadening and updating of what is taught. These findings are then related to an analysis of the curriculum in both 1980 and 2011 … to see if the curriculum is moving in the desired direction. It is shown that the curriculum is not moving in the desired …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112139
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In Disputatione Nascitur Veritas
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Centrality and fragility of university in the long-lasting debates over the functions of higher education and its role in the interplay of wider socioeconomic, political and cultural forces is an ever recurrent issue. It seems that exactly these debates called for constant public attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061677
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A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Mansur, Kasim; Jubok, Zainudin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this era of globalisation, most university curriculum requires new sets of settings and arrangements. Universiti … students and faculties as the basis in ensuring a harmonious existence within and outside the campus. Most of the curriculum in … building and curriculum development programmes. This paper examines how the forces of globalisation have transformed its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623497
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The Development of Creative Management in the Enterprise Environment: The Case of Kosovo
Ramosaj, Berim; Zeqiri, Izet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Creative Management has a meaning of innovative management, which always requires changes in terms of searching for the new paths of development in this area. These changes appear as a result of the social and political change dynamics, namely globalization, as a European and worldwide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680324
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Decomposing violence: terrorist murder in the twentieth century in the U.S.
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835859
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Relative or absolute poverty in the US and EU? The battle of the rates
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA applying the official measurement methods of the United States (absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836184
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China, the United States and technology cooperation on climate control
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The U.S. and China are the world’s largest and second largest CO2 emitters, respectively, and to what extent the U.S. and China get involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of climate mitigation and adaptation and for moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836250
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Who Leads Financial Markets?
Weber, Enzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The present paper embarks on an analysis of interactions between the US and Euroland in the capital, foreign exchange, money and stock markets from 1994 until 2006. Estimating multivariate EGARCH processes for the structural financial innovations determines causality-in-variance effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836853