Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the majority of students, the CEE score is the single determinant in whether they gain admission into a college and to what college they enter. The purpose of this paper is to determine...

It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...

We propose an innovative use of the information provided by the Leiden Rankings (LR). Although LR only consider research output of major universities reported in Web of Science, statistical analysis of LRs combined with network mapping can reveal the complexity of research performance...

In today's world comprehensive development of a country remains proportionate to its generation, application and propagation of science. In other words, it is related to the capability of the society to manage science and knowledge. If we accept this principle and believe in it, we will come to...

This paper examines adaptation process and position of current higher educational institutions initiatives for quality assessment and competition for twenty first century challenges. Key objective of this study is to examine twenty identified variables which mostly observe recent rapid changes...

It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...