The quality of online education is of interest to universities around the world. Only high quality and cyclical evaluation are the conditions for obtaining students' satisfaction with this form of education. In the pandemic era, digital dissemination and open education have become a special...

Today’s competitive economic and social environment asks for high educational expertise. There is a tremendous demand for education and training, and many countries fail to meet such requirements. Overall, there is a discrepancy between the need of the economy and society nowadays and what...

The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in...

Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and for a better quality of life. Recognizing this fact, African governments have placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary...

Israel’s education system is complicated by multiple streams at the primary and secondary levels and by military conscription. Population growth and economic expansion have brought a massive increase in demand for all levels of education. Educational attainment statistics are impressive, but...

It can be said that quality assurance of education has become a major concern of those in charge of educational institutions, but also those responsible for quality assurance of education within the competent ministry (especially in higher education) since the 80s, but especially after 1990....

In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free cities-states (the commune) in the period 1000-1300 a.d. Exploiting a panel dataset of 121 cities, we show that after the foundation of a new university the distance between each...

This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different...

Ever since its appearance, the term of knowledge-based society was intended to induce to achieve the most focused reolutions at the planet level: the global transformation of the world from the perspective of the durable development. In this context, the education and particularly the higher...

On Educating Economists-Statisticians and Economists-Mathematicians: Trends, Problems, Prospects