A two-country, game-theoretic framework focuses on the nexus between human capital formation and international migration in an enlarged framework where distinctive brain drain and/or gain effects can arise from the option to study either at home, or abroad. Heterogeneous individuals choose between alternative university systems based, among other considerations, on their innate abilities, the q...

Recalling the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the standards already set for social progress in the constitutions, conventions, recommendations and resolutions of the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World...

In Germany the results of the international PISA study disclosed a demand for an increase in the quality and an improvement in the comparability of educational results. In the subjects German, maths and first language (i.e. English) this demand already resulted in the development and publication of first educational standards. With the aim to prepare educational standards for the Informatics fi...

In 1998, the House of Delegates of the International Federation of Dental Hygiene requested that the education committee of the federation develop curriculum guidelines to serve as models for countries that were initiating dental hygiene educational programmes. This article reviews the process of guideline development, identifies challenges and directions for the future. A review of topics, goa...

Introduction: Medical tourism is a rapidly growing industry that has provided special opportunities to gain competitive advantage over international health organizations. This study aimed to investigate the quality requirements based on Joint Commission International (JCI) for medical tourism in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods:...

In the last couple of years we have evidenced several initiatives promoting the vision of open educational systems. Educational brokers are supposed to take advantage of this ‘infrastructure of standards and open specifications’ and provide exchange services for users and systems. However, a quick assessment of the adoption of educational brokers leads to the conclusion that educational brokers...

background: in recent years, the accreditation of nursing education in iran, especially in clinical field has been felt acutely. yet there are not compiled standards at the same time. accordingly, the researchers in this study tried to develop the national accreditation standards for clinical nursing education derived from international standards. methods: this research is a triangulation study...