Globalization, an aging population and accelerated technological change, trends are encountered by the European Union, which requires adjustment of the society. To respond to these trends in a timely and a quality manner, and without the accompanying consequences, the European Union put the...

In late 2012, when international relations had deteriorated in NE Asia, 295 Japanese students at ten universities were surveyed. In response to various questions about the region, opinions varied in five arenas: travel, foreign language, history, current affairs and popular culture. Over 100...

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

Understanding how finance policy can affect higher education is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. Yet there is a severe lack of evidence on the effectiveness of student aid on HE participation outside of the US, and none at all for the UK. This...

Cette étude évalue les effets de différents parcours de la voie professionnelle offerts par l’Education Nationale sur les chances d’accéder à l’emploi, toutes choses étant égales par ailleurs. Les évaluations sont réalisées sur des données expérimentales construites à l’aide...

This article econometrically evaluates the impact of age at primary school entry on individual human capital accumulation and educational guidance for the French case. We use the natural experiment formed by the variation in the individuals? birth month and by the possibility of late or early...

A modern and dynamic society cannot be built on a classical, unidirectional educational system. A modern engineer should have the ability to work with other specialists, in a common language in order to develop complex projects. This is why interdisciplinary relationships are so important in the...

This paper presents preliminary results of a study that aims to assess the role of universities in providing continuing education and training in Romania. The need for this assessment appears in the context of larger topic, that of lifelong learning, construct that raised con­siderable interest...

In this paper we propose a method to estimate models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using maximum simulated likelihood. We allow for the treatment to have an effect on both the sample...

This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...