Search Results - subject:"Polytechnic education"

Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

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Employers Satisfaction with Polytechnic Education

Abledu, Godfred - 2014

Employers are concerned with how adequate or otherwise polytechnic education in Ghana provides for the manpower needs … tracer study was undertaken to ascertain the effectiveness of Polytechnic education with regard to employability of its … graduates. The objective of this study was, in particular, to assess the extent to which Polytechnic education produces the …

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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

Haapanen, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2013

This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...

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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

Haapanen, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Research output of management accounting academics at Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany and Universities of Technology in South Africa : a comparative study of input determinants

Rosentreter, Sandra Julia; Singh, Penny; Schönbohm, Avo - 2013

German Universities of Applied Sciences and South African Universities of Technology are vocationoriented higher education institutions with a particular focus on applied research. Due to comparable educational tasks and research focus of the institutions in both countries, this paper presents...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

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Besser verzahnt : Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Österreich und der Schweiz

Graf, Lukas - 2013

Deutschlands Nachbarn verbinden erfolgreich berufliche und akademische Bildung. Österreichs Berufsbildende Höhere Schulen bereiten auf Hochschule und Arbeitswelt vor. Die Schweizer Berufsmaturität führt aus der Lehre zum Fachhochschulstudium.

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Introducing the University of Applied Science in the technology transfer process

Lehmann, Erik; Starnecker, Alexander - 2013 - Version , March 12th 2013

After WWII, the German Economy increased rapidly, often described as the "Deutsche Wirtschaftswunder". Within a short period, Germany reached the status of unemployment and human capital gets the critical factor and resource in shaping economic growth. While the bottle neck with blue collar...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

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