This title describes the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region - Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates - to address the human resource issues they each face as they prepare their countries for a place in the 21st century global economy. Together, these countries highlight ...
The Brain Korea 21 Program (BK21), which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea, provides funding to graduate students and professors who belong to research groups at top universities. The authors develop quantitative and qualitative models to evaluate how well BK21 is ...
Federal spending for scientific research at U.S. universities amounts to $15 billion per year, finding a variety of projects that improve human health, our understanding of the natural world, education, national defense, and other areas. This new book provides up-to-date analysis on cost-sharing in the research partnership between the federal ...
This text examines American higher education as an industry. It focuses on how institutions serve four identifiable markets that generate revenues: student enrollment, research funding, public fiscal support, and private giving. It describes institutions' investment, pricing and market behaviours.
In the face of rising tuition costs and the increased importance of scholarships to meeting its commission mission, the Army designed a new scholarship program, known as the tiered scholarship program because it offered four different scholarship values (called tiers). Under the new program, enrollments at public colleges increased modestly and ...
This report discusses alternatives to current SROTC battalion staffing in which many active-duty soldiers performing teaching and training functions would be replaced by reservists or by contracted civilians with former military service.
This is a text for students in biology and environmental sciences who are interested in the study of lake systems. It is organized in a traditional manner, covering the physics, chemistry and biology of lakes, followed by ecosystem examples.
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