Globally educational institutions have certain problems, which make its administration complex. Among such problems is deviant behaviour. While deviant behaviours among adolescents appear to be quite common, assessment of these behaviours and their relationship to school safety, school security...

This study aims to measure efficiency and productivity change in Greek public higher technological educational institutions during 2005-2009 by using input-oriented data envelopment analysis and Malmquist analysis. The results indicate that a number of institutions operate inefficiently causing...

The aim is to design and evaluate balanced budget policies that reallocate federal funds from investments in national defence to the education system. The research focuses on changes in income of the institutional sectors, on output changes at the commodity level and on the increase in the stock...

This paper documents an experiment of using complementary teaching and assessment methods in promoting active learning among students in applying econometric techniques to real world problems in a postgraduate econometrics course at a South African university in two academic years. The...

The TUCE is a test of economic literacy which is used to allow lecturers of economics to compare student performance in economics in their classes. The results of the TUCE indicated that the majority of students struggled with the questions of the TUCE. The poor economic literacy rate raised the...

This paper addresses a range of critical problems involving higher education funding, curricula, staff recruitment, retention and development, and student affairs that the system of higher education in Ethiopia is facing. After discussing the fundamental contributions of higher education to...

The objective of this article is to set a cornerstone to compare and understand the phenomenon of graduate entrepreneurship in developing and developed countries. Our central research questions are: Are there differences in the entrepreneurial intentions of university students? What are the...

Conflicts in labour relations have become prevalent in public tertiary institutions in Nigeria, and have had profound implications for effective administration of higher education. The adverse consequence of conflict in tertiary institutions in most cases involving organised labour unions and...

This paper advances the development of a 'universal' reporting framework for higher education. It is the first paper that reviews the current state of sustainability reporting in German and Austrian universities. Although playing a leading role in promoting sustainable development movements,...

Africa performs relatively poor, in terms of scientific production compared to other regions of the world. Moreover, pronounced disparities persist in the number of scientific and technical journal articles published across countries of the continent. The main objective of this paper is to...