Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

Higher education is a key driver of the economic growth of countries. Any country hopes that its universities, including state colleges and universities (SUCs) and private higher education institutions (PHEIs), produce the manpower needed to propel the country into high, sustained, and equitable...

Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi‐experimental setting as these modernizations can be...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs <<dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/ in Höhere Fachschule> an den Höheren Fachschulen für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen von Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird. Dabei werde Schwachstellen identifiziert, die auf Verbesserungspotential bei einer Revision des RLP...</<dipl.>

Auf einen Blick - Ergebnis 1: Verankerung des Themas MitbestimmungDas Thema Mitbestimmung ist nicht grundsätzlich Teil des Lehrplans. Die untersuchten Studiengänge greifen esselten und selektiv auf. - Ergebnis 2: Verortung des Themas MitbestimmungMit dem Thema Mitbestimmung setzen sich am...

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi‐experimental setting as these modernizations can be...

This is an ethnnographic case study of curriculum design and implementation at Dubai Women’s College (DWC) by a team of international educators from across the globe. It explores the question of: what can be learned for 21st century education from educators who choose to traverse the globe,...

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/ in Höhere Fachschule» an den Höheren Fachschulen für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen der Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird. Dabei sollen Schwachstellen identifiziert...

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...

Like many other countries where the standard of living is rising, the Sultanate of Oman is facing a potentially serious increase in what are now termed "ifestyle" diseases. These include diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and various forms of cancer. The lifestyle factors that contribute to...

Die Notwendigkeit einer angemessenen IT- und Medienbildung an allgemeinbildenden Schulen wird auf nahezu allen gesellschaftlichen Ebenengefordert: dazu gehören Gremien auf bundespolitischer Ebene (wie die Kultusministerkonferenz und das Bundeskanzleramt), führende Fachverbände (wie Bitcom und...

Despite improved access to all educational levels, many countries around the world struggle with integrating young people into the labor market. The 2007 economic crisis exacerbated the problem, but not all countries were affected in the same way. This led to a vivid debate about how education...

Die sich stets weiter entwickelnden Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) sind Treiber eines beispiellosen Strukturwandels: Sie durchdringen und pragen zunehmend unsere Kommunikation, wirtschaftliches Handeln und soziale Interaktionen. Auch im schulischen Bildungssystem muss man...

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...

This article describes the development and history of a sustainability photography competition. From its simple beginnings as an environmental officer’s idea, an environmental sustainability photography competition began in just one university. Now hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards...

This paper discusses a sustainability exercise for use in a management science course. Specifically, we discuss an exercise using goal programming and Excel Solver for making supplier selection decisions incorporating a triple bottom line approach (economic, environmental and social performance...

In an effort to integrate operational and analytical work on adolescents and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and Human Rights in Nicaragua, the World Bank, in coordination with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the United Nations...

Every two years, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners produces a Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse. The most recent report reveals several trends including the type of frauds being perpetrated, profiles of perpetrators, and industries hardest hit by occupational...

This study determines the acceptability of the proposed curricula for Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd) and Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) courses major in Islamic Studies. A questionnaire composed of open-ended questions was administered to the pre-service teachers of the Teacher...

As the winds of change sweep across the globe, the developing countries are experiencing turbulence in their education systems necessitating major changes in curriculum. However, these changes will not be successfully implemented without a proper understanding of the concept of curriculum,...

The purpose of this research article is to reveal the problems in education sector in Pakistan. Development of any country is dependent on education. Education motivates the students to increase their productivity in each and every field of life. It reduced the absenteeism, deviance work place...

It is a fact that more and more people in the world are beginning to learn Chinese. Meanwhile, for these students majoring in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCAFL) in China, having a good mastery of English is also very important. Under such circumstance, this paper investigated the...

Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female labor participation, with potential gender based...

Vor dem Hintergrund des durch Informationstechnologien (IT) angestoßenen weitreichenden Transformationsprozesses in allen sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Bereichen erläutert der Forschungsbericht die Relevanz der Wirtschaftsinformatik für die schulische Bildung. Nach der...

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey...

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar los criterios utilizados por el modo de los profesores de biología de la Educación de Adultos ( EJA), las escuelas estatales Guarapari para elegir el contenido a ser trabajado en el semestre más el punto de que la mayoría del contenido...

Education is one of the most effective tools to shape the world and solve its problems. Furthermore the earth and its well-being is heavily dependent upon the education and the number of educated inhabitants who are well aware of the fact that the resources are limited and the environmental...

Accounting was the first organizational activity to be taken into consideration when IT technologies emerged, due to its very well regulated nature, which allowed an easy algorithm creation process. Next to the Accounting departments, the corresponding profession was strongly affected ever since...

From an economic point of view, young people represent a very special category, as they are the future and their integration in society, in general, and on the labour market, in particular, should become a priority for every country. There are remarkable times we live in, unemployment among...

Organisations are marked by the complexity of interdependences and non-linear feed-back whose synergetic character has a strong impact on the dynamics, de-structuring and restructuring of the socio-economic systems that these are included in, in a continuous process characterised mainly by...