Economic Bubbles

Author(s):  
William B. Rouse

Chapter 3 address the higher-education cost bubble, why it is unsustainable, and the ways it will likely burst, using a computational model of research universities to explore possible futures for these universities. It is not possible to predict what mix of the scenarios of interest will actually emerge, although the forces driving these changes are already evident. Universities need strategies and investments that enable robust responses to whatever mix of scenarios emerges. The higher-education cost bubble will inevitably burst, probably facilitated by increasingly powerful and sophisticated technology platforms. Universities need the right portfolio of investments in the hedges that will assure success despite the bursting of the bubble. Without such changes, many institutions of higher education will disappear amidst this “creative destruction.”

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Ashley Floyd Kuntz

Abstract Student protests have developed on campuses throughout the country in response to controversial speakers. Overwhelmingly, these protests have been framed as conflicts over the right to free speech and the importance of free inquiry on college campuses. This essay reframes conflicts like these as moral disagreements over the role of individuals and institutions in producing and disseminating knowledge that supports or undermines justice within a pluralistic, democratic society. Using the specific case of Charles Murray’s visit to Middlebury College in spring 2017 and drawing insight from social moral epistemology, the essay aims to clarify the moral concerns at stake in clashes over controversial speakers and to identify possibilities to advance the moral aims of institutions of higher education in response to such events.


2020 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Mykola Moroz

Problem setting. Leasing out property that is involved in educational, academic, training and production, scientific activities by the public institutions of higher education often leads to violation of the rights of other participants in educational activities. They are sure to be a result of violating the limits, established by the current legislation, of exercising the rights to leasing out property by the public institutions of higher educational. Analysis of recent researches and publications. The issues of state property lease have been studied by many scholars. Basic research in this area has been conducted by I. Spasibo-Fatieieva, O. Lipetsker, Ye.Kazarenko, V. Steshenko, M. Pronina, S. Puhinsky, T. Potapenkova, Yu.Basin, D. levenson, N. Khashchivska, N. Milovska and other scientists. Target of research. The aim of the paper is a comprehensive study and analysis of the limits of exercising the rights by the public institutions of higher education to leasing out their own property. To achieve this goal the following tasks should be solved: 1) to define the limits of exercising the rights by the public institutions of higher education to leasing out their own property; 2) to determine the legal consequences of concluding lease agreements by the public higher educational institutions in violation of current legislation. Article’s main body. The article conducts a general study and analysis of the right of the public institutions of higher education to lease property. The author emphasizes that public higher educational institutions have the right to lease out only real estate and other individually identified property. The legal consequences of concluding lease agreements by public higher educational institutions in violation of the current legislation have been studied. Conclusions and prospects for the development. Summarizing the results of the study we can formulate the following conclusions. The public institutions of higher education have the right to lease out real estate and other individually determined property in the manner prescribed by law and subject to statutory restrictions (without the right of redemption and sublease, when it does not worsen the social and living conditions of persons studying or working in the educational institution). While leasing the property, the public higher educational institution realizes primarily their own property interests, at the same time, indirectly realizing the property interests of the state. If the lease agreement of real estate and other individually determined property of higher educational institutions is recognized as invalid, it may be recognized as invalid only for the future.


Author(s):  
Dr. Manuel Gil Antón

A lo largo de esta ponencia el Dr. Gil Antón desarrolla un cuestionamiento fundamental en la discusión por la transparencia en las universidades: “¿Cómo se relacionan la transparencia y la reforma – la vida misma – de nuestras universidades e instituciones de educación superior públicas?” alrededor de esta interrogante va entrelazando elementos de la vida universitaria relacionados con la temática, tales como la autonomía y el derecho a la información. Sobre este último puntualiza que es un derecho que existe, que se debe divulgar y ejercer, para avanzar en la construcción de ciudadanos sabedores de sus posibilidades de acción ante la autoridad.AbstractThroughout this lecture Gil Antón develops a fundamental question in the discussion by the transparency in the universities: “How the transparency and the reform - the same life - of our universities and public institutions of higher education are related?” Around this question the author interrelates elements of the university life related to the thematic, such as the autonomy and the right to the information. On this last the author emphasizes that it is a right that exists, that is due to disclose and to exert, to advance in the construction of knowledgeable citizens of its action possibilities against the authority.


Sosio Informa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanuar Farida Wismayanti

Participationis not just symbolic . In some cases, the children are still used as a tool or even not at all involved in a study, both in the preparation and execution of the research process . This allows the children involved in the institutional and cultural context. The involvement of children is very important to know their views or perspectives of the problem and the expected demand . One method to understand the level of participation, using the approach of Roger Hart's ladder of participation. Involving children is an opportunity and a challenge the right of participation the children . The benefit is improving the mainstreaming the children’s right programs, activities and policies. Participatory approaches in research, encourage children to be actively, not only as a decorative or maniputif. Encouraging the child inisitaif to participatory research . This context, it should also ethical principles in research with children, including the principle of consent to engage, appreciate the views of the child, as well as confidentiality of information, and the child initiative. To involvement of children in research, need to give children the opportunity to engage in the research process from the planning, implementation and publication . And the important in the participation of children, need support of the community and institutions of higher education to facilitate the process of participatory child research.Keywords: child participation, research with children, child mainstreaming.Partisipasi bukan hanya sekedar simbolik. Dalam beberapa hal, anak-anak masih dijadikan sebagai alat atau bahkan sama sekali tidak dilibatkan dalam sebuah penelitian, baik dalam persiapan maupun pelaksanaan proses penelitian. Hal ini memungkinkan anak-anak terlibat dalam konteks institusional maupun kultural. Keterlibatan anak-anak menjadi sangat penting untuk mengetahui pandangan atau persepektif mereka atas masalah dan kebutuhan yang diharapkan. Salah satu metode untuk memahami tingkatan partisipasi, menggunakan pendekatan tangga partisipasi Roger Hart. Melibatkan anak-anak dalam penelitian, merupakan sebuah peluang dan tantangan untuk memberikan ruang bagi anak-anak dan memberikan hak partisipasinya. Manfaatnya diharapkan akan bisa mempengaruhi berbagai program, aktivitas dan kebijakan yang lebih mengarusutamakan hak anak. Pendekatan partisipatori dalam penelitian, mendorong anak-anak terlibat secara aktif, tidak hanya sebagai dekoratif atau maniputif saja. Keterlibatan anak secara aktif, mendorong inisitaif anak sangat diperlukan dalam mendorong penelitian yang partisipatif. Konteks ini, juga harus mempertimbagkan prinsip etik dalam penelitian bersama anak, termasuk prinsip persetujuan untuk terlibat, menghargai pendapat anak, serta kerahasiaan informasi, dan mendorong inisiatif anak. Untuk mendorong pelibatan anak dalam penelitian, perlu memberikan kesempatan pada anak untuk terlibat dalam proses penelitian dari tahap awal perencanaan, maupun implementasi dan publikasinya. Termasuk mendorong terbentuknya ruang partisipasi bagi anak, dengan dukungan masyarakat dan lembaga pendidikan tinggi untuk memfasilitasi proses penelitian anak yang partisipatif.Kata Kunci: partisipasi anak, penelitian bersama anak, pengarusutamaan hak anak


2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Mark J. Cowan

The purpose of this article is to critically analyze the tax treatment of amounts that colleges and universities receive under exclusive provider agreements (also known as “pouring rights contracts”). Under these agreements, beverage companies pay millions of dollars to institutions of higher education for the right to be the exclusive provider of beverages at campus points of sale. There is no bright-line rule indicating whether revenue from such agreements is subject to the unrelated business income tax. Colleges and universities must therefore dissect the revenue they receive from these contracts and apply the general rules of the unrelated business income tax to separate the taxable amounts from the nontaxable amounts. The article reviews this process and then looks at whether there is any policy justification for taxing revenue from exclusive provider agreements. Based on a review of the policy underlying the unrelated business income tax, the article concludes that exempting exclusive provider agreement revenue from taxation would greatly simplify the law without violating the spirit or purposes underlying the unrelated business income tax.


Author(s):  
Valentyna Gapon ◽  
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Mariia Sharaievska ◽  
Tеtiana Derepa ◽  
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The purpose of the article is to study approaches to the formation of a network and composition of one-time specialized scientific councils in Ukraine according to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers «Procedure for conducting an experiment for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy» dated March 6, 2019, No. 167. An analysis was made of the existing extensive network of specialized scientific councils in Ukraine and the procedure for conducting an experiment for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by specialized scientific councils of the institutions of higher education and scientific institutions. The main objects of the study are institutions of higher education and scientific institutions which have received the right for performing educational activities in higher education at the third educational and scientific level in the field of knowledge and specialties for which Doctors of Philosophy are trained. During 2016–2019, 251 institutions of higher education in 118 specialties and 189 scientific institutions in 64 specialties received a license to train Doctors of Philosophy. As of January 1, 2020, there were 25,245 postgraduate students in 226 institutions of higher education and 191 scientific institutions (excluding postgraduate students from foreign countries), including 15,447 full-time postgraduate students, which is 61,2 % of the total number of postgraduate students, 9,798 postgraduate students attend evening and correspondence courses (38,8 %). The statutory period for the preparation of a Doctor of Philosophy in postgraduate studies, regardless of the form of study, is four years, and a Doctor of Science in doctoral studies is two years. Doctors of Philosophy training began in 2016, with the first graduation of Doctors of Philosophy in 2020, respectively. According to the data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the number of persons enrolled in graduate studies was 6 609 in 2016, 7 274 persons – in 2017, 7 172 persons – in 2018, 7 381 persons – in 2019. To conduct an experiment on the Doctors of Philosophy certification, the structure of the application for the opening of one-time Specialized Scientific Councils for institutions of higher education and scientific institutions, as well as the mechanism of database filling was developed. Further research on the development of information and analytical system for the training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff should be focused on the development of information and analytical system for the automated accounting and monitoring of the establishment of one-time specialized scientific councils, the procedure of the Doctors of Philosophy certification and records of diplomas issued.


1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-244

The Congress considers it necessary to inform you that, according to the opinion of its participants, the laws on education and culture adopted in 1993 by the State Assembly of the Republic of Estonia do not correspond to the interests of the Russian language population of Estonia. We cannot accept the situation where, by legal means, our children are left without the possibility of getting secondary education in their mother tongue in state subsidized high schools. We regard them as a violation of one of the most fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. Possibilities of getting higher education in Russian in the institutions of higher education of the Republic of Estonia are also being cut to a minimum. We should remember that, even during the most gloomy years of the Stalinist totalitarian regime, Estonian youth could and did get elementary and secondary as well as higher education in Estonian, their native language. Why then in a democratic Estonia is the Russian language population legally deprived of the right to secondary education in their mother tongue?


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-253
Author(s):  
Adel Ayada

The article examines the breakthrough of Bedouin women in Northern Israel, based on the testimony of twenty young Bedouin women who did not accept the ‘traditional’ role of the woman, in the family in particular and in Bedouin society in the village in general. This group of women succeeded in breaking the boundaries of the tribe and struggled for the right to complete high school and even to study in the institutions of higher education.


Author(s):  
Ianina Gigiberia ◽  
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Maia Kevkhishvili ◽  

The article reviews the use of formative assessment in institutions of higher education. It is crucial for making most out of the students’ potential. Formative assessment helps increase student motivation and corrects misconceptions. Creating a differentiated learning environment when specific learning needs are identified enable us to build new knowledge and experience based on the right perceptions.


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