INTRODUCTION There is little disagreement among historians of British medicine that between 1858, when the Medical Act reached the statute books, and 1900, the profession underwent profound changes. In contrast to the pluralistic structure of the first half of the nineteenth century, the profession greeted the new century in corporate unity. There was still considerable diversity of income amon...

This paper uses a range of exogenous schooling reforms in the UK to explore relationship between education and financial behaviours. Initially, we exploit two compulsory Britain (1947 1972) employ regression discontinuity design analyse nationally representative data. We find limited evidence that one extra year led systematically different One exception is promotion more positive saving behavi...

BACKGROUND: After the year 1989, political, structural and economic reforms caused signifi cant changes in education in the Czech Republic, also aff ecting physical education (PE). Within the context of unifi cation and globalization there are similar changes in progress in other countries. OBJECTIVE: The complex situation, fast changes and various pedagogical traditions complicate the creation...

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Reforms which increase the stock of education in a society have long been held by policy-makers as key to improving rates of intergenerational social mobility. Yet, despite the intuitive plausibility of this idea, the empirical evidence in support of an effect of educational expansion on social fluidity is both indirect and weak. In this paper we use the raising of the minimum school leaving ag...

1 Department for Initial and Continuing Teachers Training, “Transilvania” University of Brasov, 56 Balcescu str., RO-2200 Brasov, Romania, Tel., *40+68+470190, Email:[email protected] Abstract  An opinion regarding the necessity for reconsideration of the system of teachers’ training in Europe, and maybe not only, is presented. The educational reforms, existing in almost all educational syste...

Considered as an element of business discourse, the competence-based education emerges associated with processes of productive restructuring influencing the economy since 1970. These processes arise as a consequence of the crisis of the accumulation model based on mass production and consumption following the principles of taylorism and fordism. In the last decades, the State has been unable to...