This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recession — an Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with...

In this study, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to compute efficiency scores for a sample of Italian schools, by employing OECD-PISA2006 data aggregated at school-level. Efficiency has been defined as the ability to transform inputs (resources, students’ background, etc.) into outputs...

Commonwealth funding formulae have caused Australian universities to become obsessed with maximising external research funding. Considerable pressure is applied to faculties, departments and scholars to apply for funding, and relative success in attracting it is given excessive weight in...

In 2000, the Lombardy Regional government introduced, for the first time in Italy, a voucher plan to stimulate families to enroll their children to private schools. After this intervention, many other Regions launched similar policies. Despite the high political attention to this theme in Italy,...

The paper springs from the real fact that Romanian higher education area needs to be designed and governed in connection with current economic and management trends. Taking into account that Romanian higher education quality systems did not manage to guarantee and gear teaching and learning...

In Germany, researchers dealing with questions of empirical educational research rely mainly on cross-sectional data. In addition, there are region- and group-specific longitudinal studies. This paper demonstrates the possibilities for using educationally relevant information from long-running...

В работе рассматриваются системы образования взрослых в различных странах, государственная политика в этой сфере, международные тенденции и национальные...

В работе рассматриваются вопросы трансформации общественных потребностей в Советском Союзе и Российской Федерации и их отражение в проводимых реформах...

This is the eighth Green Bag Almanac & Reader. This year is a special one, though, for reasons given after our customary salute to our diligent board and before our customary confessions of editorial error. There are two big problems with this Almanac. First, it is late — printed in September...

Internationalisation and the entrepreneurial university are two concepts that have received considerable attention as separate and distinct phenomena. However, the interface of internationalisation and entrepreneurship has seen limited analysis, despite the fact that there is much to suggest...