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Econometrics of valuing income contingent student loans using administrative data : groups of English students
Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Erve, Laura van der - 2019
Income contingent loans are an increasingly popular tool for funding higher education. These loans have desirable features, but also potentially high overall government write-offs in the long run. This latter fact has been well documented, but little is known about how those write-offs vary by...
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772340
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773703
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Brook, Anne-Marie - 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/10012444051
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VAT Taxing of UK Private School Fees- Pros, Cons & Potential Consequences
Macey-Dare, Rupert - 2023
state sector of up to 600,000 former private school students with an expected recurrent net cost shock to the UK Treasury of … some previously private students, over to the state sector and whose state school fees now need to paid for out of general … on different UK school students, so an increase in this measure of educational equality, but at the potential cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256276
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Le financement et l'évaluation de la performance des universités: l'expérience anglaise
Atallah, Gamal; Boyer, Marcel - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2004
Nous passons en revue les principales caractéristiques du système de financement des universités du Royaume-Uni et plus particulèrement du système d'évaluation de la recherche universitaire. L'étude présente un survol historique de l'évolution de l'évaluation de la performance des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491469
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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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University autonomy : improving educational output : universities deliver more competent graduates and higher quality research if they are more autonomous and well-funded
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
University autonomy and funding is an important aspect in university-level education due to its impact on graduates’ competencies, and on the quality and quantity of research produced. Political factors influence the amount of autonomy allotted to public universities in specific countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449370
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Reflections on the US college loans system : lessons from Australia and England
Barr, Nicholas A.; Chapman, Bruce James; Dearden, Lorraine - 2018
and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820067
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Academic Experiences of MA in TEFL Students from Coeducational and Single-gender Secondary Schools
Kozha, Marziya - 2023
coeducational and single-gender secondary school backgrounds shape the academic experiences and training of MA in TEFL students … academic and social experiences of MA in TEFL students. The findings of this study have important implications for teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349865