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Measurements of inequalities in access to higher education: Case of the Russian Federation
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction … index (DI) to measure income and education inequalities. The DI, the weighted DI, and the share weighted DI allow capturing … changes in inequalities in income distribution, concentration of wealth, or access to higher education more precisely than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836912
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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of decentralization, commoditization, and privatization in higher education rise questions of accountability, transparency, quality, and access. Every nation solves problems of access, quality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836183
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463
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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837034
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Gouvernance optimale moderne des universités
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper is a theoretical introduction to modern governance of universities in developing countries. Indeed, adopting the approach of the paradigm of the theory of incentives Laffont and Tirole (1993), this paper discusses the effects of the presence of information asymmetry between the State...
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Hungarian higher education and its international comparison
Vincze, Szilvia; Harsányi, Gergely - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the Széll Kálmán Plan the government committed itself to transform the higher education system; this change is necessary and actual. Reduction of neither the state-controlled higher education institutions, nor the number of students participating in higher education is justified: in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111731
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Education and Literacy in Andhra Pradesh (Pre-School, School, Higher and Technical Education and Adult Literacy and Skills)
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present background paper reviews the progress of education including K12, vocational and higher education, skill development and literacy particularly during the last two decades in Andhra Pradesh and an attempt is made to identify gaps. It is observed that pre-primary education in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112598
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On self-financing of institutions of higher learning in India
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The mammoth system of higher education in India, which is almost wholly government supported, is in deep financial strain, with increasing needs, escalating costs and shrinking budgetary resources. Of late, it is thought necessary to devise means to self-finance these institutions of higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789267
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789784
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Challenges for higher education in eritrea in the post-independent period to the present – a case of asmara university
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Eritrean higher education faced numerous challenges over many years. It was particularly suffered during the colonial periods. Eritrea exerted its efforts to develop its dilapidated educational system with the advent of its independence. Eritrea celebrated its sixteenth birthday recently....
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