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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption

Osipian, Ararat - 2007

federal laws and provisions to different forms of misconduct, including consumer fraud, deception, bribery, embezzlement, etc …Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of …-economic context in the nation? Specifically, it analyses records of selected legal cases devoted to corruption in the US higher …

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Public education spending and school outcomes: Insights from quantile regression

Beri, Parfait; Cochrane, Logan - 2024

The literature on the empirical link between public spending and school outcomes has yielded mixed and largely debated results. Given the current education landscape, where enrolment has improved considerably, it is crucial to reexamine how public spending impacts school performance across...

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Public spending and primary school enrolment: An Autoregressive distributed lag approach

Beri, Parfait; Cochrane, Logan; Syed Fazlullah, Sarah - 2024

This paper delves into the effects of public investment on primary school enrollment in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) over three decades, from 1990 to 2020. Autoregressive distributed lag models are employed to evaluate the long-term influence of public spending on enrollment...

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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea

Rena, Ravinder - 2007

Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...

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Premarital Sex – Lessons from American Experience

Rena, Ravinder - 2005

All over the world and in most of the current society and culture, most people consider premarital sex acceptable and harmless, but the major problem of premarital is sex that it often leads to divorce. The behavior and emotional problems are much higher in premarital sex situations than in...

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Education in Eritrea: Developmental Challenges

Rena, Ravinder - 2008

The ongoing national reconstruction process of Eritrea is centered on educational reformation. The government of Eritrea placed educational policy on top priority for national development which demands the emergence of new class of trained youth blended with disciplined minds and skills instead...

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Financing basic education in Bangladesh

Al-Samarrai, Samer - 2007

This paper presents education finance trends for Bangladesh since 2000. It shows that while government spending on education as a proportion of national income has stagnated, it has increased in real terms. Real increases in education spending have resulted in substantial increases in per...

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How External Misfortunes Shaped Higher Education

Orkodashvili, Mariam - 2008

, II and Great Depression had on higher education in the U.S. Higher education - autonomous and self – contained system …

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On self-financing of institutions of higher learning in India

Mishra, SK - 2003

The mammoth system of higher education in India, which is almost wholly government supported, is in deep financial strain, with increasing needs, escalating costs and shrinking budgetary resources. Of late, it is thought necessary to devise means to self-finance these institutions of higher...

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Incentive to discriminate? An experimental investigation of teacher incentives in India

Jain, Tarun; Narayan, Tulika - 2009

We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in the presence of social prejudice, performance based pay which depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their...

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