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Heath, Julia A.; Tuckman, Howard P. – Economics of Education Review, 1987
Examines the effects of tuition level and financial aid on graduate enrollments and the pool of scholars with advanced terminal degrees. Within an alternative statistical framework defining educational demand as more than first-year enrollments, tuition and financial aid effects can be examined at each stage of the choice process. Includes one…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Economic Factors, Educational Demand, Educational Economics
US Department of Education, 2004
This document describes the accomplishments of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Education from October 1, 2003 through March 31, 2004. During this period, 71 audit and inspection reports were issued and 94 investigations were closed. Congress was provided with an analysis of issues for consideration in its reauthorization…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Financial Support, Financial Audits, Audits (Verification)
Rist, Marilee C. – American School Board Journal, 1990
Corporate America is changing the shape of school-business partnership. Offers tips to board members on how to open the door to two-way partnerships with the business community. Summarizes a number of existing programs and describes a proposed computerized information system--"Wordlink"--that reports student achievements to employers. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Corporate Support, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Tuijnman, Albert – Prospects, 1991
Discusses recurrent education as an educational objective. Includes functions, models, policy dimensions, and policy dilemmas. Suggests that progress includes extension of conventional adult education programs to a wider clientele, expansion of upper secondary education, increased localization of programs, and an increase in policy relevance in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
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Walpole, MaryBeth, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2007
This volume examines conceptual frameworks and models that flow from scholars' definitions and operationalizations of social class: status attainment theory, human capital theory, the financial nexus model, Bourdieuian theory, and critical race theory. Since students often have multiple social locations that affect their educational process, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Definitions
Levine, Victor – 1982
This paper presents a methodology for estimating the full cost of parental time allocated to child-care activities at home. Building upon the human capital hypothesis, a model is developed in which the cost of an hour diverted from labor market activity is seen as consisting of three components: 1) direct wages foregone; 2) investments in…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Family Financial Resources
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Dillman, Don A.; Beck, Donald M. – Journal of State Government, 1988
Examines rural social trends and implications of current information age for rural development. Predicts rising number of small-scale service organizations, benefiting rural areas. Examines other factors tempering optimism that rural areas can benefit from information age. Recommends investment in rural human capital, information structures, and…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Employment Projections, Entrepreneurship, Human Capital
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Deer, Cecile; de Meulemeester, Jean-Luc – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2004
In this article we analyse the role given to education and training by policy-makers in France and Britain from 1980 onwards, in relation to their overall chosen economic (and social) strategies, and highlight conjunctions between education, exchange-rate regimes, and the level of economic openness. Britain opted for a monetarist route against…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Human Capital, Change Strategies
Tsang, Mun C. – 1988
The cost of education to a country consists of total public education expenditures, total direct private cost, and total indirect private cost measured in terms of foregone earnings; improperly estimated educational costs focus only on government education expenditures. Considerable progress has been made in conceptual understanding of educational…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Santiago, Deborah A., Comp. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2008
As the college-age Latino population continues to increase throughout the nation, meeting the country's future human capital and workforce needs make it imperative to improve outcomes for Latino students today. As public attention is focused on existing achievement gaps, educators and policymakers are seeking ways to improve educational outcomes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap
Bright, Larry K.; And Others – 1984
The future role of education is covered in a discussion concerning the shifting of the dominant social paradigm of the United States. It is noted that the paradigm is changing from one that requires social institutions to seek and develop human resources to maintain a position of competitive dominance, to an emerging view of world interdependence.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Futures (of Society), Global Approach, Higher Education
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McNamara, Kevin T.; And Others – 1984
Recent studies of rural manufacturing employment have presented conflicting evidence about the relationship between human capital and local economic development at a time when competing claims for local investment funds could potentially undermine support for public education. The purpose of this paper is to: (1) develop the conceptual linkage…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Economics, Employment Opportunities
Benavides, Luis G.; Arredondo, Vicente – Prospects, 1991
Suggests that the most acute problem in educational planning is the confusion about the nature, purpose, and relevance of education. Argues that education should be viewed as a field of hypothesis about the future. Includes the importance of knowledge and know-how, education versus educational systems, and social versus educational planning. (DK)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economics, Educational Administration, Educational Needs
Hamadache, Ali – Prospects, 1991
Suggests nonformal education can be defined only with respect to its function in a specific context, its objectives established on an individual basis. Argues that it cannot be centralized or institutionalized. Includes nonformal education as a method of broadening access to education, providing second chance programs, and serving a Gandhian…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
Glewwe, Paul; Jacoby, Hanan – 1992
The objective of this study was to assess the determinants of student achievement in middle schools in Ghana, with special attention given to school characteristics. A model of human capital accumulation which includes decisions on how long to attend school, which school to attend, and how much human capital to accumulate is presented. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Human Capital
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