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Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, S. Mansoob – Education Economics, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to compare the role of human capital accumulation measured by number of years of schooling with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity. We employ several concepts of institutional quality prevalent in the literature. We discover that developing human capital is as important as superior…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
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Cooper, Sheryl B.; Reisman, Joel I.; Watson, Douglas – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
Surveys of sign language programs in institutions of higher education in the United States, conducted in 1994 and 2004, are compared to reveal changes over time. Data are presented concerning the institutional environment of programs, program administrators, and instructors. Institutions examined in 2004 were on average 5 years older than those…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sign Language, Intellectual Disciplines, Institutional Environment
Lang, Daniel W. – 1999
Diversity is a policy objective pursued by most higher education systems; at the same time these systems are also concerned about equity of access and the quality of educational opportunity. For a variety of reasons, individual institutions attempt to benchmark themselves against other institutions. Both activities involve measurement,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Diversity (Faculty)