A personal estimate of a health risk may not correspond to a scientific assessment of the health risk. Hence, there is a need to investigate perceived health risks in the public. In this study, a young, educated and healthy group of people from a tertiary institute were questioned about their health concerns. Ethics clearance was obtained and data was collected by means of a questionnaire. 362 ...

Professional societies, established to support academic and professional staff in higher education, need to be vigilant of regional and international trends that affect their core business. In this paper, we provide an analysis of political, economic, social and technological factors that are impacting upon the Australasian higher education environment through considering the case of the Austra...

As world markets integrate, leaders around the world face heightened pressure to boost their countries’ global performance. One policy almost always advocated for achieving this goal stands out, both because it seems to make so much sense and because it is offered to every country: increase worker education. This paper extends standard trade theory to incorporate education and determine its rel...

Information Technology (IT) plays an important role in enabling education services be delivered to users. Most education online services in universities have been run on the cloud to provide services to support students, lecturers, researchers and administration staff. These are enabled with the emergence of cloud computing in the world of IT. Cloud computing offers on demand Internet-based com...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the development of Liberia’s educational system. Although the educational system was designed to accommodate everyone, Liberia’s illiteracy rate is still estimated at fifty-three percent (53%) as of 2015 [1]. With a current population of approximately 4.6 million [2], 33.2% of Liberians have had no education, 31.1% have had only primary ...

If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary education—the category of education of most direct benefit to the poor—while on average public subsidies to seconda...

This paper empirically investigates whether the contribution of human capital to productivity growth depends on the composition of human capital and proximity to the technology frontier in a panel of 87 sample countries over the period 1970–2004. It tests the hypothesis that primary and secondary education is more suitable for imitation whereas tertiary education is more appropriate for innovat...

Criticism is sometimes leveled at the academic Software Engineering community on the basis that current educational practices are too document-centric. Both students and practitioners have suggested that one of the popular, lighter-weight, agile methods would be a better choice. This paper examines the educational goals for undergraduate Software Engineering education and considers how they mig...

Bolivia Ecuador Guatemala Variables Mean Std. Dev Mean Std. Dev Mean Std. Dev Income per capita 889.29 (897.40) 240.23 (234.30) 7153.08 (7976) Age 39.86 (11.77) 42.59 (11.77) 39.34 (11.65) Male 0.63 (0.48 ) 0.65 (0.47) 0.70 (0.46) Indigenous 0.63 (0.48 ) 0.07 (0.26 ) 0.35 (0.47) Urban households 0.53 (0.50 ) 0.60 (0.49 ) 0.54 (0.50) Primary education 0.55 (0.50 ) 0.52 (0.50 ) 0.75 (0.43) Second...