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The paper investigates the financial condition of Italian universities, focusing on cash- and budget-level solvency as …), organisational factors (which refer to the performance evaluation of the strategic mission of universities, such as research and … evaluating the financial viability of Italian universities, characterised by high flexibility and feasibility. We found that …
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Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even lower during the last decades, and the...
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universities. This paper states that there is no one right prescription for changing governance in Ukraine’s universities, because … and content. It proposes different approaches to the different types of the universities, considering universities as … reforming universities. …
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This paper considers corruption in higher education in Russia as reflected in the national media, including such aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the...
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This paper considers corruption in higher education in Ukraine as reflected in the national media, including such aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the...
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Doctorates have long attracted attention of those aspiring to scholarship and research, but also those seeking verbal distinctions and a documented knowledge. Doctoral degrees are considered as signs of a high level expertise and authority in a given filed. The growing number of dissertation...
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We address the following question: how does a higher education funding system influence the trade-off that universities … make between research and teaching? We do so by constructing a model that allows universities to choose actively the … that face universities under such systems and show how, as the parameters of the system are varied, the nature of the …
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research more on societal problems, while being better empowered and enabled by Governments. Universities must show leadership … in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and … research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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