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Estimating the Returns to Education Using a Machine Learning Approach -- Evidence for Different Regions
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Kamdjou, Herve D. Teguim – Open Education Studies, 2023
This article revisits the Mincer earnings function and presents comparable estimates of the average monetary returns associated with an additional year of education across different regions worldwide. In contrast to the traditional Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method commonly employed in the literature, this study applied a cutting-edge approach…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Artificial Intelligence, Human Capital, Regression (Statistics)
Schooling, Productivity and the Enterprising Self: Beyond Market Values
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Down, Barry – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
This paper argues that under the influence of neoliberalism the role of schooling has been narrowly redefined as helping students to gain the knowledge and skills to "get a job". Drawing on the recent policy pronouncements of the new Rudd Labor Government in Australia, the paper examines how the advocates of human capital theory have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
Changing Schools: Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference
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Wrigley, Terry, Ed.; Thomson, Pat, Ed.; Lingard, Robert, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Changing Schools" places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Human Capital, Laboratory Schools
An Enterprising Approach to Regional Growth: Implications for Policy and the Role of Vocational Education and Training. A National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program Report
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Garlick, Steve; Taylor, Mike; Plummer, Paul – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This report explores patterns of regional economic growth in Australia over the period 1984 to 2002 in order to determine how and why these patterns evolved. From the results, the authors have attempted to identify regional opportunities and the policies and practices that can assist in realising them and, in particular, the potential contribution…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Financing Lifelong Learning for All: An International Perspective. Working Paper.
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Burke, Gerald – 2002
Recent international discussions provide information on various countries' responses to lifelong learning, including the following: (1) existing unmet needs and emerging needs for education and training; (2) funds required compared with what was provided; and (3) methods for acquiring additional funds, among them efficiency measures leading to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Career Education
International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning: From Recurrent Education to the Knowledge Society.
Istance, David, Ed.; Schuetze, Hans G., Ed.; Schuller, Tom, Ed. – 2002
This book, consisting of 17 chapters written by different authors, traces the progress that has been made in developing lifelong learning policies over the past 30 years and examines current challenges to lifelong learning policymakers. Focusing on a global agenda, the book is organized in six parts with thematic chapters following an introductory…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)