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Does School Improve Equity? Some Key Findings from Portuguese Data
Chagas Lopes, Margarida; Medeiros, João; PINTO, AQUILES - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Does School Improve Equity? ABSTRACT Most school inequality research usually emphasize the role played by pupils' family social, cultural and economic condition, their parents' educational achievement, previous own school story and gender, among other factors. Despite also considering these same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728049
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School Failure and Intergenerational “Human Capital” Transmission in Portugal
Chagas Lopes, Margarida; Medeiros, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
School Failure and Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission… ABSTRACT A new education reform is about to be passed into Law, in Portugal, the extension of compulsory education until the 12th grade being one of the main goals. Given huge value school failure indicators (e.g., illiteracy...
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Education in Post-Independent Eritrea – A Brief Description
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835622
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463
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Double – shift schooling and EFA goals: assessing economic, educational and social impacts
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of the paper is to discuss the system of double-shift schooling and assess it from economic, social and educational angles referring to different cases from Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper makes an attempt to prove that despite certain challenges that it faces, the system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550548
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Innovative Technology, Social and Economic Sustainability: Evidence from Pakistan
Herani, Gobind M.; Lodhi, Saeed A.K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper assesses the development, perspectives and prospects of innovative technology which would be supporting social and economic sustainability in Pakistan. The study specially examines following points: (i) The trend in growth rate of IT industry. (ii) Comparison of growth at the time of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789339
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Comparative analysis of students training needs regarding Internet and its effects
Turturean, Monica; TURTUREAN, Ciprian Ionel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this article we will try to realize a comparative study in order to find out if the internet has a positive or a negative role for undergraduate’s university students. The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of undergraduate university students regarding the effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259560
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Measurement of Attitude and Behavior of Self-help Group Members: Evaluative Study of Eastern India
Meena, M.S.; Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
an efficient mode of technology dissemination. Therefore, a study was undertaken to measure the attitude and behavior … constructs of SHG member. A Likert-type scale developed by Meena et al. (2008) was applied to measure the attitude construct … low income. A significant change in the attitude of SHG members was observed in the areas viz., socio-economic upliftment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260693
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Impact of self help groups on attitudes of members
Meena, M.S.; Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
An evaluative study was undertaken for measuring the attitude of self help group (SHG) members. Data were solicited … and 2013. The attitude construct was measured by using a Likert-type scale developed by Meena et al. (2008). The study … shows a significant improvement in attitude of SHG members on all the five dimensions, viz. socio-economic upliftment …
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Об истории и современном состоянии среднего общего и профессионального образования в условиях развивающейся экономики...
Kormiltseva, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The article provides an overview of the main steps in the change of the Russian school in the twentieth century. There is analyzed the problem of achieving a balance between equal access to education and individualization of learning
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267861