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Does Higher Education System of United Kingdom Produce Enough Graduates?
Shah, Ashfaque Ahmad; Arain, Amjad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
entrance trend of the higher education students in the United Kingdom. And at the end the researcher gave the data depicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111820
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E-learning as internationalization strategy in higher education: Lecturer’s and student’s perspective
Mihhailova, Gerda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
interest groups’ point of view – lecturers and students. The aim of the case study presented in the paper is to find out what … respondents) and Type B to students (115 respondents), Both types were constructed by the author. In phase two, two in …-depth interviews and two semi-structured group interviews were conducted (ten students in one group of interview, eight lecturers in …
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061096
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Revising the school choice problem
Duddy, Conal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In a school choice problem each school has a priority ordering over students. These priority orderings depend on … information results in mechanisms that discriminate between students in ways that are difficult to justify. We propose an …
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I would walk 500 miles (if it paid)
Chumacero, Romulo; Gómez Caorsi, Daniel; Paredes, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
students would improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys have suggested that families rank the distance of the …
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Household choice of public versus private schooling: a case study of Bahawalpur City
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Maryam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Government of Punjab is committed to attain the universalization of school education by providing free education and even in a number of districts the free books and through the programs of food for education. The stipends on the subsidized schooling are also part of the policy by Government of...
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Spanish publicly-subsidised private schools and equality of school choice
Mancebón-Torrubia, María Jesús; Ximénez-de-Embún, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-year secondary school students of the Spanish region of Aragon. We conclude that the system of Spanish publicly-subsidised private … schools has not entirely facilitated the integration of students from different socioeconomic strata. A probit model is …
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School Choice and Student Achievement. Evidence from Poland
Herbst, Mikolaj; Herczynski, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
city on the average achievements of 9th grade students in Polish middle schools. We find the evidence that the increased …
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