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extent of private education. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, Russia …, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, Professor Tooley gave a snapshot of private education that was unknown to many … readers; contrary to expectations, the private education sector was large in the countries studied, was innovative, and was …
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the world. Later we saw the same pattern in higher education in Europe and Australia. Since the beginning of this new 21st … aspirations for globalization there is also a corresponding increase in efforts to upscale higher education. But can universities …
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The paper maps the infiltration of so-called "predatory" scholarly journals into the citation database Scopus. Using the names of "potential, possible, or probable" predatory journals and publishers on Beall's lists, we derived ISSNs of the respective journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus...
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A controversial new financing phenomenon has recently emerged. New “income share agreements” (“ISAs”) enable an individual to raise funds by pledging a percentage of her future earnings to investors for a certain number of years. These contracts, which have been offered by entities such...
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In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, although we...
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to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
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to appear, without getting into the field of view of the majority of researchers in higher education. Debate on the … of higher education, especially in developed countries. Among the key questions as the proper factors of development … education and global context. The former include the rapid growth of costs universities and the emergence of massive open online …
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small firms to access financial services, including financial literacy, financial education programs and financial … corresponding innovations in regulatory frameworks, perimeters and capacity. Moreover, programs in the areas of financial education …
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The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship among education, education finance and economic growth on … the basis of secondary education. In the research, the number of students enrolled in secondary education is the indicator … of education, net government education expenditures per student is the education finance variable and per capita GDP is …
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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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