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...

iran’s nineteenth century is to be regarded as the age of major reforms including educational reform. in that century, iran’s defeat by russian made the european presence in iran possible; europeans intended to reform iranian educational system. these powerful countries supported the missionary activities in iran and in particular backed the development of minorities’ educational system. under ...

Reform efforts to strengthen teaching and learning in the classroom, are taking place within an increasingly broader context than they have in the past. Goals of educational reform and the thinking that underlies these goals, are rapidly changing. Educational reforms are moving from their historical emphasis on access and improved system maintenance and control, to wider concerns about increase...

We study the impact of international migration on enrollment of the left-behinds in Albania using the 2008 and 2012 Living Standard Measurement Survey. We employ a 2-stage Probit model controlling for endogeneity with an instrumental-variable approach. We find that migration has a negative and significant impact on enrollment in both waves. This result holds across different sub-samples and alt...

Critical thinking is closely related to the main objectives in current educational reforms worldwide. It permits to develop cognitive skills of interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and auto-regulation, which are essential in today’s job market. Critical thinking is being implemented in different e-learning platforms with outstanding results. This paper presents an ontol...