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China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has … lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic … number of problems. Access to pre-school education is still far from universal. Migrants’ children as well as rural and poor …
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expenditure on education, the analysis of which made it possible to determine the level of education funding in each country; the … expenditure on education in GDP, depending on the level of edu- cation, which made it possible to determine the priority and … sufficiency of education system funding; the cost allocation indicator by funding organizations; and the human development index …
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In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national innovation economy. The principal difference last year...
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The scientific sphere saw continuation of the measures initiated between 2009 and 2010. The Russian research complex displayed certain positive shifts, though they fell short of being of magnitude sufficient to be mirrored by statistics. There also were alarm bells: specifically, against the...
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Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself in the rise of new initiatives on support of university research, development of interaction between science and business, and encouragement of the latter's innovation...
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The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when … colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent …
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic … growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing … in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and …
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic … growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing … in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and …
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The objective of this research is piloting and evaluating the introduction of teaching innovations for better learning in a general microeconomics course for undergraduate students. The assessment is based on the Self Determination Theory and student-centered methodologies (SDT)(Deci and Ryan, 1985;...
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This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...
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