Brazilian higher education has doubled its size in the 1990s, going from 1.5 million to more than 3 million students in the period. This expansion was mostly due to the growth of private education, which, in 2002, accounted for about two thirds of the enrollment. Is expansion making higher education more accessible to persons coming from the poorer segments of society? Is the quality of higher ...

pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...

entrepreneurship has arguably emerged over the last two decades as the most robust economic force the world has ever experienced. with its expansion, has come a similar increase in the field of entrepreneurship education. the recent growth and developments in the curricula and programs devoted to entrepreneurship and new-venture creation have been remarkable. the number of colleges and universi...

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment the decade starting 1999. Using Household Finance Survey, we show that Great HE Expansion has exacerbated large pre-existing urban-rural gap educational attainment underpinned by hukou (household registration) system. We instrument years of schooling with interaction between urban status during childhood and timi...

This paper examines the inter-relationship of three major phenomena- population growth, uncontrolled urban expansion and urban development in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. Uncontrolled urban expansion has a resultant effect on the urban development of a city whereas uncontrolled urban development is caused by uncontrolled population increase is caused by Migration. This work encapsulates how population g...