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Educators/trainers try very hard to be inclusive. But sometimes we adopt learning strategies that have the opposite effect. Unless we are careful, the programs we develop may exclude participants because of disability, ethical issues, cultural differences, spirituality, and religion. Adventure...
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With the changing blueprint of responsibility in management education, institutions of higher education are becoming more and more focused on performing well beside a growing number of metrics. Many used as alternative measures to specify value of educational experience, amongst the most common...
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. Our results suggest that a one standard...
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This study presents new vision how to upgrade business higher education at the Faculty of Economics at University of Tourism and Management in Skopje (UTMS). This paper is result of analyses of best practices of leading higher education institutions as well authors experience in higher education...
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Using survey data collected at Göttingen University, Germany, this paper evaluates the effect of attending the lecture and/or tutorial on the grade achieved in two basic courses in business administration and economics. The analysis shows that going to class has no significant impact on student...
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...
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The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students...
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This article attempts to empirically validate the presence of grade inflation in economics courses offered by the Department of Economics, University of the Philippines Los Bantilde;os. Using grades from 1986-2005, an upward trend is seen in 10 out of 18 courses offered. However, the source of...
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