This study offers insight into the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), as agreed and detailed by the Romanian qualifications framework, applied to the economic sector. By means of a survey conducted on 92 employing companies, it validates the importance of competencies for the Romanian...

This paper examines field experiment in which we encourage the use of computer-based tests (quizzes) through a set of non-financial incentives and test their effect on effort and performance of students. Our identification strategy exploits cross-cohort experimental variation in assessment rules...

One obvious change in the nowadays education paradigm refers to the method of delivery the educational material. If the teacher traditionally stood in front of the room full of students and spoke to them, today ICT is increasingly used to facilitate the providing of courses, but also to ease...

The purpose of this study is to analyze which factors have influence on the satisfaction of customers in service sector which can ultimately affects organization’s profitability. This study attempts to examine the relationship between students’ satisfaction and others variables such as...

Colleges and universities display substantial differences in the ratio of students to faculty across fields or disciplines. At Harvard University, for example, economics has about 16 students majoring in the subject per full-time-teaching equivalent, while in other departments such as astronomy,...

The research article looks into the psychological and other characteristics that play a role in students’ learning ability. In all the observations we have found some students performing better than the others, this display of performance in their studies implies the presence of certain...

Wilhelm von Humboldt hat 1809/10 seine Universitätsidee näher ausgeführt, zu der insbesondere auch die Einheit von Forschung und Lehre sowie die damit verbundene Gemeinschaft der Lehrenden und Lernenden gehören. Dagegen gibt es Stimmen, dass Humboldt bzw. seine Universitätsidee tot seien,...

Abstract Failure in Higher Education (HE) is the outcome of multiple time-dependent determinants. Interruptions in student’s individual school trajectories are one of them and that’s why research on this topic has been attracting much attention these days. From an individual point of view,...