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The paper is aimed to analyze the current higher education reform in Russia in the context of international experience … of higher education systems’ performance and economics’ statements. It is shown that changes put into practice are in … discrepancy with Russian higher education system institutional environment. As a consequence the achievement of formal resemblance …
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university is an institution for training and education and it becomes an integral part of a sustainable society. …
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A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a … liquidity constraint so that tuition must be paid out of pre-university income. It is shown that student loans provided by home … jurisdictions will ensure an efficient quality of higher education if loans do not contain any subsidy. If there is income …
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This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university … university success is shown to vary substantially across faculties. In some fields of study, the probability of graduating is …
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Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable … expanding educational opportunities from primary school through university to the past four decades. More over, international … organization have put so much emphasis on supporting educational expansion and improvement in Africa. However, education in Africa …
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Israel’s education system is complicated by multiple streams at the primary and secondary levels and by military … conscription. Population growth and economic expansion have brought a massive increase in demand for all levels of education … of compulsory education. As in other socio-economic spheres, there are significant gaps between Arab-Israelis and the …
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Sub-standard quality is a recurrent problem within parts of the human services - in the care for frail elderly, mentally ill, the intellectually disabled, and children in need - and within law enforcement. Service quality is of great concern to the individual, and the larger society. If so...
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Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....
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Insurance intermediaries help consumers to economize on information and transaction costs in insurance markets. However, competing insurance intermediaries provide heterogeneous services, which are difficult to assess by incompletely informed consumers. Transaction costs economics, search theory...
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