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Commit to Building on New England's "Employability" Advantage!
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Gittell, Ross – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Higher education has provided New England with an economic advantage, as the region without strong natural resource advantages has relied on its higher education institutions (HEIs) and brainpower. A higher education-based economic advantage has enabled the region to develop strong well-paying technology and knowledge-based industries tied to New…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Higher Education, Colleges, Economic Factors
Merit Goods, Education Public Policy--India at Cross Roads
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Misra, Satya Narayan; Ghadai, Sanjaya Ku. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Merit Goods have always received handsome attention and allocation from countries which have witnessed a congruence between high significant economic growth and Human Development Index (HDI). The Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) have become significant manufacturing hubs by universalizing education and improving their Incremental Capital Output…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Human Capital
"Capital Cities Centrism" as the Cause of Social Inequality in the Russian System of Higher Education
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Latova, N. V.; Latov, Iu. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Social inequality in access to superior quality higher education in Russia is due to the unequal development of the regions of Russia. The country's two biggest cities and the areas adjacent to them account for a quarter of Russia's infrastructure that offers young people an access to a higher education. The regional colleges and universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Educational Quality