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This report—Green Growth, Resources, and Resilience—describes an evolving policy landscape characterized by a changing economic reality, rising demand for resources, increasingly apparent impacts of environmental and climate change, and increased risk and uncertainty. The report provides new...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the higher education system in the transition period of Romania, by using a contingency approach combined with change dynamics. This post communist transition, which actually happened in all the European former communist countries,...
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Employers report that despite knowledge, graduating students are initially unable to act wisely in the workplace. They … encouraging this practical wisdom to develop. Through increased voluntary student engagement students moved from demonstrating … engagement and reflection with formative feedback. Those who voluntarily engaged were the more successful of the students by the …
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The economic crisis has highlighted the significance of ongoing work by pluralist economists to define and implement a more pluralistic economics education. This paper explores the close connection between pluralism and student engagement, and argues this connection is a particularly compelling...
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The use of Facebook, which is a popular communication device among students, is perceived to have the ability of … bridging the gap between students and their lecturers, which this in turn gives rise to some positive effect on the teaching … between students and their lecturers is just a finger click away. The present study focuses on the use of Facebook as a …
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The student’s transition from secondary school to higher education consists of a series of changes that can have …, especially because, often, this transition involves a change of residence. Using a sample of 339 students from the University of … Algarve, this study aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between student’s subjective well-being and their …
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among students it is typical to carry on family business or they would rather set up an own one. I will try to answer to … this question by means of a national survey among higher education students. My aim is to analyze the characteristics of … those students who intend to carry on the family business. The main result of this research is that higher education …
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The topic of this monograph are socio-economic factors of absolute demand for higher education. Using regression analysis, different social and economic factors of the increasing rate and of the decreasing base of demand on the aggregate level are determined. Using probit analysis, additional...
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This empirical study deals with the conditions of psychological discomfort in 60 students in traumatic stress …
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The paper investigates students’ earning expectations in the context of different motivations towards graduation … respond three research questions. Firstly, we examine the position of students’ wage orientation among other degree …-related values (ie. income-oriented/not income oriented students) and explore its determinants. Secondly, the study analyze the …
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