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Public intergenerational transfers (IGTs) may emerge from the failure of private arrangements to provide optimal economic resources for the young and old. We investigate the political sustainability of the public system of IGTs by seeking to determine the outcome if the decision to reallocate economic resources per se was put to the vote. Exploiting the particular nature of the data from the National Transfer Accounts and the political economy application of Rangel (2003), we show that most of the developed countries would vote in favor of a joint public education and pension system. Interestingly, political support is strengthened when we account for population ageing.

We use Census and National Household Survey data to generate estimates of the private rate of return to a Canadian bachelor's degree that allow for differences in earnings determination, taxes, and tuition by birth cohort. Log-earnings equation estimates that allow for cohort effects suggest that earnings equations have shifted significantly across cohorts in ways that have increased the returns to education. These effects dominate the effect of changes to taxes and tuition across the 1927–1981 birth cohorts examined. The results suggest that rate-of-return estimates based on a single cross-sectional data set underestimate the rates of return of recent cohorts.

Addresses the great benefit of knowledge and notes faults and merits of various systems of education;in favor of military education component. ; Address may have been delivered at a Norwich University commencement.

Abstract This paper aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the dynamics of women's movements and their relations with institutions, political parties and the official mechanisms used to promote gender equality. It is the outcome of the first study on State feminism in Portugal. Our research was carried out using a case study which focused on the main gender equality official mechanism and its networks, which required a qualitative approach. We concluded that currently, while the Portuguese State is confronted with its persistent inability to implement gender equality policies, the present situation of Portuguese women's movements is that of redefining and adjusting to the major challenge of reinvention and resignification within a very difficult external environment.

AbstractThe scholarly works on ethnicity and nationalism have been highly dominated by binary frameworks. In addition, the normative preference for civic consciousness and the concerns of national disintegration often separate the notions of ethnicity and nationalism. This article suggests that the notions of ethnicity and nationalism cannot be understood exclusively as a choice between maintaining the integrity of the nation and completely rejecting it. Drawing on fieldwork in mother tongue schools in Nepal, the article draws attention to the ways in which school actors discursively positioned ethnic identity as imperative to national identity, the one that bolsters the notion of Nepali nationhood. By paying close attention to the everyday context within which discourses of nationalism are situated, this article argues for an analytical necessity to approach ethnicity and nationalism in relation to each other to appreciate the process of symbolic negotiations in public spaces.

Hunger has grave impact on education and health status of the children that is the major reason the international organizations such as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Funds (UNICEF), World Bank and other stakeholders are making herculean efforts to ensure that the spate of hunger is reduced in the world. Also it is unfortunate that the spate of hunger is a common phenomenon in the developing countries despite the fact that most of these developing countries are agrarian. Therefore increase in hunger affects pupils enrollment, retention etc. In order to encourage the education of the children in Nigeria, the federal government through the State and Local government initiated a home grown feeding programme in all the States of the federation. However, it is against this backdrop that this study examines the effect of school feeding programme on educational system in Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study relied on primary source with the use of questionnaire and interview to gather information from the respondents in Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area. Partial Least Square technique was used to analyse the data garnered from the field. The study revealed that home grown school feeding programme does not have effect on Educational system in Ijebu-Ode except it is accompanied with massive infrastructure. Also government and the stakeholders should ensure that this programme is monitored to letter so that low quality food will not be served to the pupils.

"Reprinted from 'The Times',for the Manchester education bill committee." ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Historical Overview, Organizational Considerations, and Implications" published on by Oxford University Press.

[EN] Using The Public Higher Education Boards Database designed by Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) in 2008, this paper reviewed prior studies of governing boards and investigated regional differences of boards' characteristics including board type, selection method, board composition, provision condition, term length, supervision, and meeting frequency. The results show tha: (1) highly centralized state university governance with more political control exist in West and Middle West; (2) governing boards in Northeast are more autonomous with high percentage of alumni and self-perpetuating members and less political affiliations; (3) more faculty participations appear in South and West, and most Middle West boards do not have removal process and longer length of term. ; Park, HJ.; Zhu, Q. (2017). Public Higher Education Governing Boards Composition and Regional Difference in U.S. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1085-1094. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.5519 ; OCS ; 1085 ; 1094

This authoritative collection brings together contributions from well-known international scholars which demonstrate how management education as practised in the U.S. and Western Europe needs to be changed to suit the socio-economic and political systems existing in developing and transitional countries. The papers present a hands-on approach. The geographical area covered is Russia and Eastern Central Europe, China and some other developing countries. The contributors are mostly faculty members in business schools around the world with wide experience in business.

Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Documentation -- Introduction -- Family -- Safety -- India: The Transforming Interlude -- New York -- 1968 -- Awakening -- Ms. -- Dissonance at Close Quarters -- Trashing -- Houston -- Any Port in a Storm -- Getting to Fifty -- Imperatives for Change -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- About the Author.