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AbstractUnderstanding and improving the performance of public higher education institutions is a matter of growing interest to university and government leaders. To this end, this article surveys dimensions of recent approaches to productivity measurement in higher education, illustrating trends, limitations and developments, and exemplifies these with reference to Australian universities. The article closes by discussing policy considerations that would help augment the design of policy, making comment on the implications for performance‐incentivised funding of higher education.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict -- Part 1: Democratic Values And Processes -- Chapter 2. From Peace Agreement to Textbook: Education Content for Peacebuilding in Burundi Post-War -- Chapter 3. Musharraf's Enlightened Moderation: How Education Escalates Conflict in Pakistan Despite Attempted Transformation -- Chapter 4. The Multiple and Intersecting Roles of Civics Textbooks in Conflict-Affected Sri Lanka -- Part 2: Equality And Inequality -- Chapter 5. A Post-9/11 Analysis of Civic Education Textbooks Used in Public Schools in Afghanistan -- Chapter 6. Reproducing Inequalities Through Social Studies Textbooks in Afghanistan -- Chapter 7. Reproducing Gender Identity in Jordanian Civic Education Textbooks -- Part 3: Historical Narratives And Competing Truths -- Chapter 8. No Textbooks, No Peace? Historical Narratives in South Sudan -- Chapter 9. South Sudanese Primary School Textbooks: Transforming and Reinforcing Conflict -- Chapter 10. Textbook Politics: Education in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Mobilizing Textbooks for an Equitable Future.

This book presents an overview of the state of the art in studies of higher education and the world of work, based on papers, some of which were presented at the 1992 annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers. This book compiles the contributions made to the study of the subject by different disciplines and sketches the range of relationships between higher education and work. It also presents discussions about the contribution of higher education to the labor market. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education

An historical analysis of religious education in the public sphere -- The root of the problem -- Influential theoretical positions -- Some contemporary responses to old problems -- Addressing assumptions -- Reconceptualising education -- What does it mean to be religious? -- New possibilities for religious education? -- What should religious education aim to achieve in the public sphere? -- Practical considerations : what might this mean for the teacher? -- Epilogue and some practical considerations : what might this mean for a religious education curriculum?

This report discusses the elementary and secondary education act (ESEA) that was last comprehensively amended by the no child left behind act of 2001.

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter 3 hereby employs novel machine-learning methods to derive intertemporal preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly related to wages, especially at the top of the wage distribution.

This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed and developing worlds. Through a mixture of theoretical and practical approaches, it demonstrates that open education promotes ideals of inclusion, diversity, and social justice to achieve the vision of education as a fundamental human right. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.