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Educational institutions and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...
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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276931
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Improving Access and Quality in the Indian Education System
Hill, Sam; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School … mechanisms could help attract and retain talent in academia.<P>Améliorer l'accès et la qualité du système éducatif indien …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224863
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Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper uses a combination of secondary and primary data to provide a more comprehensive analysis of education, training and skill development policies in the Gulf countries. Different from earlier studies an interesting element in our analysis is that we discuss both the supply and demand...
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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new secondary and primary data. A novel element in our paper is that we use new primary macro and micro (firm) surveys data to discuss and compare the macro and micro perspectives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712096
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Intercultural Bilingual Education Program for Better Performance in Schools The case of the Indigenous Children of the Amazon
Alvarado, Betty M. - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013
This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the non-Spanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas, Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735916
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Brook, Anne-Marie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046241
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Spanish publicly-subsidised private schools and equality of school choice
Mancebón-Torrubia, María Jesús; Ximénez-de-Embún, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study analyses the system of Spanish publicly-subsidised private schools from the perspective of its contribution to the equalisation of opportunities in school choice. The theoretical framework is based on the contributions of researchers into school choice policies, while the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592933
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When Will India Achieve Universal Adult Literacy: Status and Prospects
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
caste, and across, states with respect to literacy. It also explores the prospects of literacy rate in India with a … performance of India in literacy rate is relatively poor. The progress in the literacy rate especially during the last decade is … Campaign (TLC) yielded very poor results. With respect to the prospects of India in meeting the EFA goal related to adult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115477
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
brought out annually by UNDP reflects the condition of human being in different parts of the world. It has come to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151