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education, strengthening continuous learning and instigating more cooperation, feedback and support between colleagues. This …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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A key higher education policy question is about the financing of this sector. Who, why and how higher education should … and professors have voiced their demands for greater funding. This document advocates the need for shared higher education … econometric calculations of the respective benefits generated by tertiary education, with approximately one half of the total …
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A new approach is suggested that depends on and measures how spending on higher and basic education is really an … criterion, just as are the standard approaches that stress the needs to fund higher education costs and, for K-12, the concept … ‘total return to education' (relative to full costs) for broader development as the basic education financing criteria for …
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292080
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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