This report was prepared by the State University – Higher School of Economics under supervision and with support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as an input to the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education. The document was prepared in response to guidelines encouraged the authors to canvass a breadth of views and priorities on tertiary education issues. The ...

This study examines the impact of human capital on productivity of labor in Indonesia, using the ARDL analysis data method. This study uses the variable of human capital with a proxy level of labor education, the health status of labor and labor productivity. The data used are sourced from World Bank publications in the period of 1981-2014. The outputs of the analysis with the method of ARDL sh...

The current study concentrates on the influence of family background, labor-market conditions and existing tuition policies on tertiary-education choices. We explore the natural experiment of changes in tuition policies happened during 1995-2006 years in the Russian Federation (passage from state-subsidized education to mixed forms of tertiary education: on a state-subsidized and full-tuition b...

The article describes the changes in the financing of Czech tertiary education since 1990 in the wider context of the development of the tertiary education system, focusing on its key moments. It aims at analysing the impact the three different funding systems – Incremental, Per Capita, and Performance Based – have had particularly on stimulating the transformation of higher education, proving ...

Internet banking is becoming one of the important services to many consumers. Most of the banking transactions can now be done online regardless of time and place. Information security is one of the crucial components in Internet banking where it ensures the confidentiality of bank users’ information. It was found that there is lack of empirical studies on awareness of information security in I...

BACKGROUND Procedural sedation guidelines were established for a tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED). We developed a pediatric procedural sedation course to disseminate these guidelines. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of a sedation course in improving physicians' knowledge of pediatric procedural sedation practices and guidelines, relative to individua...

In spite of the existence of a dual system of postgraduation, one under the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the other on a parallel track under the National Board of Examinations, postgraduate medical education in India is beset with several problems. For example, the curriculum has not been revised comprehensively for several decades. The diploma course under the MCI has become unpopular an...

Background Meeting participants' needs and matching their preferences are important prerequisites for an effective Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) program. The objective of this pilot study was to assess the opinion of hospital pharmacy practitioners with respect to the CPE program. Methods The pretested questionnaires were distributed to 20 pharmacy practitioners working in a pharmacy at...

BACKGROUND Breast feeding has several benefits for both the infants and mothers. However, despite strong evidences in support of breast feeding its prevalence has remained low worldwide. The objective of the present study was to examine the knowledge and attitude towards breast feeding and infant feeding practices among Indian postnatal mothers. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional descriptive study...

Tertiary education is one of the most important industries in Australia and a crucial source of income for its universities. Therefore, any new form of tertiary education that may have impact on Australian universities should be closely watched for implications on their business models. In the past decade, MOOC-Massive Open Online Courses have emerged with the promise to offer world class educa...