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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … also serves as the base over which the super-structure of the whole knowledge system is built up. This calls for bringing …. The former have been hailed as a successful instrument to remove all ills plaguing the elementary education system in …
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combine jobs opportunities with skills development. This thesis assesses the relevance and scope for effectiveness of …
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … forms. The educational system in Eritrea shows all the symptoms of prolonged neglect under colonialism and war. But … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in …
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development of higher education system. The paper focuses on one of the issues raised by the Spellings Commission, access to … issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the … complicated federal aid system is still a challenge of the future. The question that remains to be answered is: ‘Will the federal …
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The object of this article is to assess the causal impact of promotions policies on students' choice of the field of study. We match the records of the students enrolled in two large universities with the records of the participating schools. Within the participating schools, some students took...
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illustrate the potential for gains from redirecting resources using data from a state job coaching program that is designed to … individuals. In our simulations, we find that state ID population employment can be increased from 10.7 percent to an upper bound …
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Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that …-quality educational options, Chile has introduced a voucher system. Vouchers are simply the induction of incentives as market forces into … empirical evidence that the Chilean case provides and try to determine if this voucher system works as the free-market theory …
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This paper on the basis of Quasi-experiment shows that ‘quality of education’ of the students of the government owned primary schools getting mid-day meal are not satisfactory. Lack of giving sufficient importance on education by the parents for their children mainly coming from low...
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...
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heterogeneous; male teachers respond more positively to performance pay than female teachers. In Florida, which restricts state …
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