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McKenzie, Richard B. – 1979
This book on the economics of education is concerned primarily with how and why the student goes about acquiring whatever human capital he or she wishes and how the institutional setting of the university influences the amount of human capital that the student acquires. The learning process is dealt with, and an economic theory of learning, which…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability
Download full textGass, J. R. – 1996
This paper examines the goals, architecture, and means of lifelong learning. The following are among the topics discussed: economic and social dimensions of the forces pushing Europe toward a learning society (investing in people; promoting employment in an era of structural change; making firms key partners in the learning society; overcoming the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Economic Change
Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2007
The work of the Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education (ACPE) is guided by a 5 year strategic plan. The purpose of the plan is to provide focus for the activity of this small agency and its eight staff members in order to increase productivity and impact in the areas of its statutory authority. The mission and goals were accepted by…
Descriptors: Productivity, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Grants
Rasell, M. Edith; Appelbaum, Eileen – 1992
Past investments in the U.S. work force--early childhood interventions, formal education, and training--have improved productivity and made important contributions both to the wages of individuals and to the growth of the economy. Excellent, comprehensive prenatal care, good nutrition, medical care, and intensive early childhood education programs…
Descriptors: Competition, Continuing Education, Early Intervention, Economic Development
Mushkin, Selma J., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
In the past few years an important beginning has been made toward defining and exploring the major issues in the economics of higher education. The research of economists covers a wide range of problems, from that of the Nation's requirements for college-trained people, to detailed questions of financing. Perhaps no single area of this work offers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Economics, Higher Education
Smith-Mello, Michal; Childress, Michael T.; Watts, Amy; Watkins, John F. – 2000
Trends that will influence Kentucky's future were examined along with policy options for responding to those trends. According to the analysis, the effects of the new economy on Kentucky has been mixed. Although many Kentuckians have benefited from the new economy, the state's least educated and poorest residents are falling further behind the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Adult Education, Aging (Individuals)
