Performance standards have been at the center of recent debates on educational reform. Many states have implemented new performance standards, often based on student test scores, and a district's state aid is sometimes linked to its success in meeting the standards. This focus on performance is...

Universitetlər onlardan tələb olunan vəzifələri yerinə yetirə bilmək üçün həm qlobal, həm yerli şəraiti çox yaxşı bilməli, bu şəraitin tələb etdiyi aktual təhsil sisteminə sahib olmalı, sürətlə baş verən dəyişikliklərdən geridə qalmamalı, onlara çevik ayaq...

This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author's framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...

Education is the corner stone of economic and social development. It plays a significant role in economic development and higher education contributes to human resource development in many ways. Thus investment in higher education can be a key contributor to country's economic growth. The study...

This paper analyses theoretically and quantitatively the effect that different higher education funding policies have on welfare (on aggregate and at the individual level) and wealth inequality. A heterogeneous agent model in continuous time, which has uninsurable income risk and endogenous...

Economists have suggested that the quality of higher education is not independent of the sources of funds used to fund that education. This paper examines the relationship between student measures of teaching quality and institutional revenue sources. The results indicate that a greater reliance...

Nagaland presently has 36 colleges, of which 28 are private and 8 are government. Private colleges enroll 14,000 students and serve over 80% of the higher education students. The market share of private colleges is increasing over time, while that of government colleges is decreasing. The...