Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable … expanding educational opportunities from primary school through university to the past four decades. More over, international … organization have put so much emphasis on supporting educational expansion and improvement in Africa. However, education in Africa …

observed that pre-primary education in the state, as is the case of all over India, still neglected and needs a strong policy …The present background paper reviews the progress of education including K12, vocational and higher education, skill … intervention. With respect to school education, although the quantitative expansion is remarkable in the state as well as in India …

This paper considers the influence of spatial competition on education and its effect on students' school choice and … educational achievement by explicitely modeling educational production and the students' participation decision. Education at … of the associated costs and prospective benefits from doing so. We analyze how competition between schools affects …

This paper estimates the steady state growth rate for Ireland with an extended version of the Solow (1956) growth model …. We show that the education and trade openness have played an important role to improve the long-run growth rate. Policies …

examine the ‘sorting’ mechanisms of schools and tracks in highly stratified, moderately stratified, and comprehensive … education systems. We use data from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) wave. Compared with previous … educational inequality of opportunity for students in different education contexts. The findings clearly indicate that the effects …

The Portuguese government recently launched a new program to refurbish the secondary schools all over the country … schools. This is seen as the main motivation for the settlement of new local public private partnerships (PPP) within this … sector. This paper discusses the public private partnerships (PPP) contracts in the Portuguese schools sector. Four national …

An estimate of the contribution of the biosector to Ireland’s net foreign earnings in 2008 was recently published by … the Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables for Ireland. The 'biosector' comprises the agriculture, forestry and fishing …