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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District
Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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 all children under coverage of Elementary...
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Educational Attainment in India: Trends, Patterns and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260159
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Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students
Tendero, Julieta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the hemispheric dominance (HD) and the English proficiency (EP) scores in the four macro skills of the Western Mindanao State University college students. It hypothesized that students’ HD would have a significant correlation a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647386
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About SES & educational expectations: interrelations in the determination of higher education baccalaureate attainment.
Milagros, Nores - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
SES and expectations, as well as considering variations to modeling SES and use alternative estimation methods for bounded … probabilities increasing with SES. These results disappear when estimation methods are improved, using logits and bivariate probit … through all estimations, and strengthens when estimation methods are improved. Out estimates therefore reinforced the findings …
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Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109141
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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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Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790087
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Curricula tracking and central examinations: counterbalancing the Impact of social background on student achievement in 36 countries.
Bol, Thijs; Witschge, Jacqueline; Van de Werfhorst, Herman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
other educational institutional features. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we study how central examinations affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259202
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Efficiency of public and publicly-subsidised high schools in Spain. Evidence from PISA 2006
Mancebón-Torrubia, María-Jesús; Calero, Jorge; Choi, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
schools using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fed by the results provided by a hierarchical linear model (HLM) applied to PISA …-2006 (Programme for International Students Assessment) microdata. This study places special emphasis on the estimation of … account the nested nature of PISA data. Inefficiencies are then measured through the DEA and decomposed into managerial …
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