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There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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EU Communication and Information Studies represent an opportunity for curricula development within the European universities. At the same time, this new field stands for an important challenge to make human resources able to settle and use the tools for the internal and external cross-border...
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The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...
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Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the …. We also consider high school achievement and admission route in predicting college grades. We obtain administrative data … is similar for the two universities. High school achievement and admission routes are also significant predictors of …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current state of higher education, high-impact research and university rankings in Asian emerging market-India. Firstly, overview of higher education and government schemes for academic research is presented. Secondly, progress of high-impact...
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private research institution of higher education that is housed in a city that has undergone, and is still undergoing, the change from a manufacturing hub to a center of knowledge enterprise. Although colleges and universities are part of a local oligopoly, CMU is...
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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)...
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violence, from the easiest to the most difficult ones. The violence in school organizations is a common form, so we can not … multiple determination (familiar, social, personal and school) and its forms of manifestation are mutually conditioned and they …
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schools in Los Angeles. The results show that teacher effectiveness varies widely both across the Los Angeles school district … schools in improving student achievement. We explore the sensitivity of teacher and school effectiveness measures to … alternative regression controls. We find that teacher and school effectiveness measures are relatively insensitive to detailed …
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computer usage both at home and at school of 15-years-old Italian students. Using the PISA 2006 dataset and controlling for a … wide range of individual and school characteristics, our results suggest that students using the computer at home very … computer usage at school, it emerges that student achievement increases with the intensity of computer use but the effect …
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