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their peers' ability to perform at the next level. Alternatively, promoting students into grades for which they are not … prepared may lead to early dropout behavior. This study shows that in a sample of schools from the Northwest Frontier Province … of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. An econometric decomposition of promotion decisions …
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in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data … students in 1997 to examine their schooling and employment status in 2000. The findings demonstrate that: (1) attendance at …/or earnings premium; (2) attendance at vocational schools leads to significantly lower academic achievement as measured by …
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"Patrinos and Sakellariou use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the...
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performance for many students in Turkey and participation in secondary education, as well as tertiary education, is low by …
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and the number of international students peaking in 2017. Following improvements in the quality of local universities and … students. Enhanced trade in the higher education sector, and the expansion of the sector, bodes well for Malaysia's next phase … challenges likely relate to domestic constraints. To attract foreign students and faculty members and to enhance trade in the …
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Uzbekistan is a lower middle-income country located in Central Asia with a population of 30 million people and an economy that has been growing by over 8 percent per annum since the mid-2000s. The composition of the workforce has also changed dramatically in recent years. The higher education...
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This benchmarking exercise provided some important lessons on the tool itself and its capacity to: 1) identify strengths and weaknesses at individual institutions; 2) identify trends at the national level; 3) identify trends and practices by type of institution; and 4) generate interest to...
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Brazil has put significant resources into developing its higher education system over the past three decades. As a result, a system has evolved in which some institutions have achieved recognizable excellence in teaching and research, while, more generally, the majority of institutions have...
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Brazil has put significant resources into developing its higher education system over the past three decades. As a result, a system has evolved in which some institutions have achieved recognizable excellence in teaching and research, while, more generally, the majority of institutions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558865