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Portuguese Women in Science and Technology (S&T): Some Gender Features Behind MSc. and PhD. Achievement

Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Portuguese Women in S&T - Abstract Most research based upon institutional data has been dealing with the situation of Portuguese women in Science and Technology as if it would be a homogeneous set. Quite the opposite, whilst women in science are performing increasingly better than men since the...

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Recent Experiences and Emerging Cooperation Schemes on TA and Education: An Insight into Cases in Portugal and Germany

Moniz, António; Grunwald, Armin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

At the beginning of the 21st century there are new expectations and challenges towards Technology Assessment (TA). Among these there is a new awareness on TA issues in education, in particular at universities. While TA was mainly an activity at extra-universitarian research institutions for a...

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Success/Failure in Higher Education:how long does it take to complete some core 1st. year disciplines?

Chaga Lopes, Margarida; Fernandes, Graca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Despite the enormous increasing in Higher Education (HE) enrolment during the last decades in Portugal, retention rates remain very high when compared to most European Union countries'.This outcome is particularly meaningful for a set of 1st year's critical matters which failure severely...

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A (micro) course in microeconomic theory for MSc students

Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Those lecture notes cover the basics of a course in microeconomic theory for MSc students in Economics. They were developed over five years of teaching MSc Economic Theory I in the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. The lectures differ from the standard fare in...

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Mosca, Ruffini and Einaudi: politics, jurisprudence and economics in defence of freedom

Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-century liberalism: market and civil society, public opinion and rights of freedom. …: Mosca, Ruffini and Einaudi were variously identified as "Masters of Freedom", particularly in light of their strong defense … of freedom during the consolidation of the fascist regime. In this article I aim to reconstruct the idea of freedom that …

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