A second round of monitoring the performance standards practiced by higher educational establishments has been completed in the Russian Federation. The very fact of such a monitoring having actually been launched is an indirect sign that licensing and accreditation procedures are applied...

The world of higher education is undergoing a drastic change and globalization is playing a key role in it. Key drivers include advanced technological services, dominance of knowledge society, increased international labour mobility and the growing emphasis on market economy and trade...

The women play a key role in economic growth and development. World Bank and IMF studies have shown that the economies of the developing countries are losing billions of US dollars because women are still discriminated against in economic life. Eritrean women contribute largely for the freedom...

The state universities in Sri Lanka are facing new challenges against maintaining quality standards of education. The new application of private universities stood against the public universities and placed the burdens, which made the immense cost for public universities. The various parties...

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the funding mechanisms for higher education across sixteen countries which builds upon existing work on educational institutions, educational outcomes and welfare regimes. We focus upon the current financing dilemma within the Irish higher education...

This paper develops an original measure of learning in higher education, based on grades in subsequent courses. Using this measure of learning, this paper shows that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but unrelated to learning once current grades are controlled. It...

High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large...

Appraisal methods and techniques have proven to an essential factor of employee retention. However, the private higher education sector usually faces a situation of lack of funds to meet its operations. Thus, in such a situation, employee retention becomes a question of the hour. The paper...