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Expertise, university infrastructure and approaches to new venture creation : assessing students who start businesses
Širokova, Galina V.; Osievskyy, Oleksiy; Morris, Michael H. - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 29 (2017) 9/10, pp. 912-944
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797152
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Role of Markets in Education
Kodwani, Devendra G. - 2011
This essay focuses on higher education in India and argues that the role of state should be drastically reduced in provision, funding and monitoring if we are to ensure good quality facilities for higher education in India. It is argued that these activities should be left to market based...
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The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria
Ochmann, Sophie; Owolabi, Kehinde Elijah; … - 2021
Grant disbursals and school-based management interventions are expensive interventions that have recently received growing attention from policy-makers despite their mixed success at delivering improvements in educational outcomes in a cost-effective way. This paper reports results from a...
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Higher education and employability in Tanzania : students' account
Kibona, Bertha - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 1, pp. 254-267
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Teaching Programming Skills to Finance Students : How to Design and Teach a Great Course?
Yan, Yuxing - 2016
is especially true for students from quantitative-finance, MSF, business analytics or financial engineering programs … students at 3 schools, the following 7 factors are critical for designing and teaching such a course: strong motivation, a good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002039
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One Semester, Two Languages : How to Teach R and Python to Business School Students?
Yan, Yuxing - 2021
It is crazy to teach business students both R and Python at the same time! It was my thought when asked to teach such a … course in 2020. However, after one-semester’s heavy struggle together with my students, I found that such a course is not … own lecture notes; 2) use concepts and formulae suitable for business students; 3) tons of in-class exercises; 4) use the …
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Teaching programming skills to finance students: how to design and teach a great course
Yan, Yuxing - In: Financial innovation : FIN 3 (2017) 32, pp. 1-14
A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language. This is especially true for students …
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University Departments and Self-Employment Intentions of Business Students : A Cross-Level Analysis
Walter, Sascha G. - 2011
This study examines how characteristics of university departments impact students' self-employment intentions. We argue … research orientation) increase such intentions. Using a dataset of 1,530 business students and 132 professors at 25 university …
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Education Curriculum and Student Achievement : Theory and Evidence
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
distributional effects across students. We test the model using the quasi-natural experiment of the G8 reform in Germany. We find …, such benefits are more pronounced for well-prepared students. In contrast, less-prepared students do not benefit from the …
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Faculty perceptions of the adoption and use of clickers in the legal studies in business classroom
Farag, Denise M.; Park, Susan; Kaupins, Gundars - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 4, pp. 208-216
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