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Education and youth in post-independent Eritrea: An analytical study

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

gainful employment and thus bring a positive social and economic change. The students in Eritrea need to acquire appropriate …-independent Eritrea. The methodology used in this paper is essentially a descriptive analysis of data obtained from secondary sources … unpublished, materials on Eritrea. …

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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …

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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …

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FINANCING OF EDUCATION IN ERITREA - A CASE STUDY OF ZOBA MAEKEL

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Educational investment is an engine of economic development in Eritrea and thus financing education is like a blood to … patterns of educational finances in secondary education in Eritrea particularly in the zoba –Maekel. It presents data on … deals with the introduction, second part explains the cost and financing of education and training in Eritrea, third section …

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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations

Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020

In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...

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Maturity and school outcomes in an inflexible system: Evidence from Catalonia

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Loviglio, Annalisa - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-49

The existence of a rigid cutoff date which determines when children start primary school creates a large heterogeneity in students' level of maturity within the classroom. We use rich administrative data of the universe of public schools in Catalonia to show that: (1) relatively younger children...

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Educational reform, ability and family background

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...

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Study versus television

Browning, Martin; Heinesen, Eskil - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-16

The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total" effect of changes in school quality could be quite...

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What is behind the decline in student achievement in Australia?

Ryan, Chris - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 226-239

Australian school student achievement in reading and mathematical literacy has fallen in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) collection since 2000. This study finds that these declines were widespread in the student population, affecting both males and females. However, the...

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School crowding, year-round schooling, and mobile classroom use: Evidence from North Carolina

McMullen, Steven C.; Rouse, Kathryn E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 812-823

This study exploits a unique policy environment and a large panel dataset to evaluate the impact of school crowding on student achievement in Wake County, NC. We also estimate the effects of two education policy initiatives that are often used to address crowding: multi-track year-round...

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