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Die Regierungen in der Europäischen Union retten Unternehmen in Schwierigkeiten durch staatliche Rettungs- und Umstrukturierungsbeihilfen. Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Kapiteln, die solche Beihilfen analysieren. Im ersten Kapitel nutze ich Daten von 86 Fällen aus den Jahren 1995-2003 um zu prüfen, wie wirksam die Beihilfen bei der Konkursprävention sind. Es gibt drei Ergebnisse. Erstens steigt die geschätzte diskrete hazard rate in den ersten vier Jahren nach der Subvention und sinkt danach, was nahelegt, dass einige Sanierungen den Konkurs eher verzögern als verhindern. Zweitens, Regierungen favorisieren staatliche Unternehmen bei Beihilfeentscheidungen, obwohl diese keine besseren Überlebenschancen haben. Drittens, die Wahl, ob Rettungs- oder Umstrukturierungsbeihilfe gewärt wird, ist eine endogene Variable in der Analyse. Wenn man sie als exogen betrachtet, unterschätzt man die Auswirkungen auf die Konkurswahrscheinlichkeit. Das zweite Kapitel ist eine Studie über die Auswirkungen von Bailouts auf Marktstruktur und Wohlfahrt in einem internationalen, asymmetrischen Cournot -- Duopol. Es wird gezeigt, dass die optimale Beihilfe positiv ist, auch wenn der Marktaustritt einer Firma nicht verhindert werden kann. Der Grund hierfür ist ein strategischer Effekt, der die effizientere Firma zu einer zusätzlichen kostenreduzierenden Maßnahme veranlasst. Wird der Marktaustritt verhindert, ist Effizienz geringer. Das dritte Kapitel enthält empirische Belege der politischen, institutionellen und wirtschaftlichen Determinanten der Sanierungsubventionspolitik. Ich nutze einen neuen Datensatz über Entscheidungen über Rettungs- und Umstrukturierungsbeihilfen während der Jahre 1995-2003 zusammen mit Informationen über Wahlergebnisse in den Europäischen Ländern. Das wichtigste Ergebnis ist, dass die Beihilfen in Ländern mit Mehrheitswahlsystem wahrscheinlicher sind, insbesondere während der Jahre vor Wahlen. ; Governments in the European Union bail out firms in distress by granting Rescue and Restructuring Subsidies. This thesis consists of three chapters analyzing European bailouts. In the first chapter, I use data from 86 cases during the years 1995-2003 to examine the effectiveness of bailouts in preventing bankruptcy. The results are threefold. First, the estimated discrete-time hazard rate increases during the first four years after the subsidy and drops after that, suggesting that some bailouts only delayed exit instead of preventing it. Second, governments'' bailout decisions favored state-owned firms, even though state-owned firms did not outperform private ones in the survival chances. Third, subsidy choice is an endogenous variable and treating it as exogenous underestimates its impact on the bankruptcy probability. Policy implications are discussed in the chapter. The second chapter is a study of the effects of bailouts on market structure and welfare in an international asymmetric Cournot duopoly. I show that the subsidy is positive also when it fails to prevent the exit. The reason is a strategic effect, which forces the more efficient firm to make additional cost-reducing effort. When the exit is prevented, allocative and productive efficiencies are lower than in case of exit. The third chapter provides evidence of political, institutional and economic determinants of bailout policies. I use a new data set based on rescue and restructuring aid decisions during the years 1995-2003 merged with information about electoral outcomes in European countries. The main finding is that in countries with majoritarian democratic institutions bailouts are more likely, in particular during years preceding elections. Since bailouts are a targeted fiscal policy, the evidence supports the theory of Persson and Tabellini (2000) predicting that electoral systems shape incentives for fiscal policy choices.

Laima Šamatavienė. Theme of the Master's thesis 'Self-expression of Pre-school Education Group Teacher and Quality of Education'. Research supervisor Prof. Habil.Dr. M. Barkauskaitė. Vilnius Pedagogical University, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences. 05.05.2009 . Objective of the research is to examine and make analysis of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality of education. The main objective defined in the thesis is concretized with the tasks as follows: analysed conception of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality of education in research literature, analysed and examined self-realisation of a teacher while making strategy of his/her activities, revealed and described expression of self-realisation of pre-school education group teacher while developing a program of education, plans of activities, a concord of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality is discussed, the attitude of parents to competences of teachers while organizing education procedure is ascertained. All concepts related to the theme of the analysis are discussed following the governmental decrees, principles of equal opportunities, contextuality, efficiency, and continuity of educational system, aims and tasks of education. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was made in accordance with made in advance program of research, aims and tasks defined in the research program were fulfilled, a structured questionnaire and interview were prepared. Thirty six pre-school education teachers and one hundred forty parents of children attending pre-school education school responded to questionnaire. The results of qualitative analysis revealed that a lot of pre-school education teachers are drawing important attention to managerial self-expression of a teacher while seeking for education quality strategy through individual program of educational entity and plans of activities as well, taking needs and expectations of society into consideration. The results of the research show that seeking for better results of quality of education, and improving planning of activities, organizing of educational procedure, self-expression of pedagogical communication and collaboration and managerial competences, the teachers should agree more often on their activities with parents, colleagues, educational entity, and to be able and capable to attain for balance between the provision of knowledge and consulting, management and leadership, to make compromise decisions during class activities. Pre-school education teachers are working creatively, that is especially clearly seen in a Russian-spoken pre-school educational entity, they endeavour to provide information to their pupils in a non-traditional and original way. While improving the artistic, personal, social competences, teachers are recommended to renew their knowledge, to pay more attention on their self-analysis. In analysis of activity and initiative competences of teachers given in this Thesis, it is obviously that teachers are attaining for studying during whole their life, however it should be worth to apply more new technologies in their activities, to improve knowledge in state language, to share the gathered experience, to acquire the required qualification, professional development, to promote motivation of pupils. Data of the research revealed that there are favourable conditions for improvement of self-realisation and acquisition of new competences in a pre-school education entity. Pedagogical competence, planning of activities, competences of educational procedure, pedagogical communication and collaboration, private and educational competences are especially important for self-realization of a teacher. However teachers feel lack of self-education means that could be worth for development of competences, there is a lack of knowledge and new educational methods oriented to development of competences, experience of application. Attitude of parents to competences of teachers in arrangement of educational procedure marks out being provided services: engagement of children, diversity of activity, quality, state language teaching. Self-expression of pre-school education teacher and quality of education is a complex urgent problem both theoretically and in practice. It requires making a wider and deeper analysis in the process of development of educational procedure and attaining for quality of such procedure.

Laima Šamatavienė. Theme of the Master's thesis 'Self-expression of Pre-school Education Group Teacher and Quality of Education'. Research supervisor Prof. Habil.Dr. M. Barkauskaitė. Vilnius Pedagogical University, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences. 05.05.2009 . Objective of the research is to examine and make analysis of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality of education. The main objective defined in the thesis is concretized with the tasks as follows: analysed conception of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality of education in research literature, analysed and examined self-realisation of a teacher while making strategy of his/her activities, revealed and described expression of self-realisation of pre-school education group teacher while developing a program of education, plans of activities, a concord of self-expression of pre-school education group teacher and quality is discussed, the attitude of parents to competences of teachers while organizing education procedure is ascertained. All concepts related to the theme of the analysis are discussed following the governmental decrees, principles of equal opportunities, contextuality, efficiency, and continuity of educational system, aims and tasks of education. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was made in accordance with made in advance program of research, aims and tasks defined in the research program were fulfilled, a structured questionnaire and interview were prepared. Thirty six pre-school education teachers and one hundred forty parents of children attending pre-school education school responded to questionnaire. The results of qualitative analysis revealed that a lot of pre-school education teachers are drawing important attention to managerial self-expression of a teacher while seeking for education quality strategy through individual program of educational entity and plans of activities as well, taking needs and expectations of society into consideration. The results of the research show that seeking for better results of quality of education, and improving planning of activities, organizing of educational procedure, self-expression of pedagogical communication and collaboration and managerial competences, the teachers should agree more often on their activities with parents, colleagues, educational entity, and to be able and capable to attain for balance between the provision of knowledge and consulting, management and leadership, to make compromise decisions during class activities. Pre-school education teachers are working creatively, that is especially clearly seen in a Russian-spoken pre-school educational entity, they endeavour to provide information to their pupils in a non-traditional and original way. While improving the artistic, personal, social competences, teachers are recommended to renew their knowledge, to pay more attention on their self-analysis. In analysis of activity and initiative competences of teachers given in this Thesis, it is obviously that teachers are attaining for studying during whole their life, however it should be worth to apply more new technologies in their activities, to improve knowledge in state language, to share the gathered experience, to acquire the required qualification, professional development, to promote motivation of pupils. Data of the research revealed that there are favourable conditions for improvement of self-realisation and acquisition of new competences in a pre-school education entity. Pedagogical competence, planning of activities, competences of educational procedure, pedagogical communication and collaboration, private and educational competences are especially important for self-realization of a teacher. However teachers feel lack of self-education means that could be worth for development of competences, there is a lack of knowledge and new educational methods oriented to development of competences, experience of application. Attitude of parents to competences of teachers in arrangement of educational procedure marks out being provided services: engagement of children, diversity of activity, quality, state language teaching. Self-expression of pre-school education teacher and quality of education is a complex urgent problem both theoretically and in practice. It requires making a wider and deeper analysis in the process of development of educational procedure and attaining for quality of such procedure.

This article revises Norwegian higher education debate from the publication of a radical reform proposal made by a government committee in May 2000 until the closure of the reform process in the parliament in May 2001. It is argued that a great rhetorical divide between neo-liberal and Humboldtian concepts of higher education characterized the debate, and that this to some extent distorted the coherence of the final solutions. Nevertheless, it is maintained that the reform is quite likely to instigate a period of profound changes in the national higher education system.

Srinivasan,S: Provost,R: Mackey,J: Arafat,Abdul Naser: ; This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of education for Females and males and for both years 2004 and 2008. It is believed that the relative size of the Palestinian economy the uniqueness of subjugation to military occupation contribute greatly to this result. In 2008, returns are lower than 2004 levels for all levels of education; the pattern is less obvious for Turkey across the various levels. However, the 2008 crisis seems to have influenced the more educated more severely (MA and above) in both countries. Female returns to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the selectivity corrected return estimates are lower than the OLS estimates in Palestine while they are higher than the OLS estimates in Turkey.

The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the growing trends in higher education in the United States that narrow educational opportunities for poor and working-class adult learners.

O interesse desse trabalho volta-se para o ensino superior e sobre o curso de Jornalismo, onde os estudantes aprendem desde cedo a lidar com os meios de comunicação e as novas tecnologias. Como fruto do meu estágio de pós-doutoramento na Faculdade Cásper Líbero, a pesquisa pretende refletir sobre a relação Comunicação e Educação nos próprios cursos de comunicação, ou seja, se a apropriação das tecnologias da informação forma cidadãos críticos e conscientes de sua participação na sociedade. Quero chamar a atenção para a contribuição da Educomunicação para o Ensino Superior.

AbstractThis article provides a novel account of recent UK governance reforms, describing what can be termed an 'incoherent' state, ill-equipped to address complex, multi-dimensional policy challenges. This is evidenced through two interrelated case-studies: Covid-19 and levelling up. We highlight how the tradition of strongly centralised government combined with an ad hoc approach to reform has undermined inter-governmental relations and limited the possibility of effective policy. We conclude by arguing that current levelling up proposals, focused on redesigning sub-national government, reflect these deficiencies and therefore offer an insufficient remedy for the UK's imbalanced economic geography and resulting inequalities. The failure of past reform highlights the need for systemic transformation—including a new governance framework—to address meaningfully the UK's geography of discontent.

The present legislation concerning Professional Qualifications for Teaching (Law n.437, 2007) was created in the context of the Higher Education reorganization according to the Bologna Process. By situating the professional qualification of preschool teachers and primary school teachers at the second cycle level (Master's), this law may contribute to reinforce the recognition of these actors" importance in the promotion of quality development, which is so necessary in the Portuguese society, and necessarily refers to the need of a demanding, qualitative initial teacher education. Having this context as background, the present communication intends to present and analyse some of the foundations of the curriculum organization for the Master's Cycle in Pre-School and Primary School Education from the Castelo Branco School of Education, giving special attention to the integration of educational research methodologies in supervised teaching practice. Whereas the "voice" of the master's is a fundamental tool for the analysis we want to achieve, we conclude with the presentation and analysis of results obtained with the administration of the experimental version of the questionnaire "Conceptions of Research Process and Teaching Practice" and the "Reflective Report" asked students in the final phase of the curricular component of the course.