education and the knowledgebased economy in europe

... authoritative in the Middle Ages called their authority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten- tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a major force behind ... Transformation in Early Modern Europe,  vols. (Cambridge, ), and its abridgement, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, ).  Eisenstein, Printing Press and Eisenstein, Printing ... flood of supportive information and suppressing contrary stories and externally by feeding information to their vassal papers in Avignon and London.  Furthermore, in the s, they launched a...

... participation฀ in primary,฀ secondary฀ and higher฀ education has฀ increased,฀they฀still฀lag฀behind in educational฀attainment฀because฀of the continuing฀ severe฀inequalities in some฀areas. Education provision in many฀public฀schools฀is฀still฀ of฀poor฀quality.฀Dropout and repetition฀rates฀among฀Africans฀remain฀high฀at฀primary฀ and ... analysed฀ the impact฀of฀quality฀of฀schooling฀on฀inequalities and argued฀that the residual฀earnings฀ differentials฀attributable฀to฀labour฀market฀discrimination฀might฀be฀smaller฀than฀thought฀if฀ cognisance฀is฀taken฀of the large฀differentials in education quality.฀He฀further฀argued฀that฀ labour฀market฀race฀discrimination฀has฀declined฀as฀a฀cause฀of฀inequality฀compared฀to฀other฀ factors฀such฀as education, ฀location, and family฀size and composition.฀ Various฀labour฀laws,฀policies and initiatives฀have฀been฀put in place฀to฀address the inequities฀ in the labour฀ market฀ and in the education sector.฀ In ... especially฀ in the context฀ of฀ greater฀ demand฀for and wider฀participation in higher education. This฀ paper฀ looks฀ at฀ the inequities฀ in higher฀ education and their฀ consequences in the labour฀market฀for฀people฀with฀higher education. The inequalities in the type and source฀of฀human฀capital฀acquired฀are฀often฀overlooked, and it฀is฀argued฀here฀that฀they฀ perpetuate฀inequalities฀observed in the labour฀market.฀Inequities in acquired฀human฀ capital฀eventually฀influence฀educational฀attainment,฀which in turn฀influences฀labour฀ market฀prospects.฀This฀is฀reflected in the selection฀or฀sifting฀of the potential฀employees฀ in the labour฀market.฀Those฀with฀longer฀years฀of฀schooling฀have฀better฀prospects in the labour฀market.฀But฀also฀of฀significance฀is the type฀of฀qualification฀acquired฀during฀ schooling.฀...

... crisis and recession and these, in turn, contribute to the financial instability.  The EU financial system mixes traditional and capital markets banking and this is interacting with the sovereign ... role). The UK (based on the Vickers Report) 14 is implementing the most significant reform since the crisis (including ring-fencing retail banking from investment banking), the USA has the Volcker ... of the above pressures is reinforcing the downward pressure on the economy. The basic problem can be seen in Figure 4, which shows the familiar internal and external balance lines, in the...

... significant decreases in advertising (e.g. in Poland, Ireland and France), in other countries significant increases were recorded, including Slovenia (up 26%) and the Netherlands (up 38%) (see table ... containing milk and being only a ‘snack’ size. Products are sold in multi-packs of 8 and 16 for repeating the ‘treat’ on a routine basis. The online advertising specifically describes the product ... including examples of street graffiti promoting the marketing theme (shown here). Further concerns There are further concerns regarding the self-regulations, which we intend to analyse in...

... for anything that went wrong in the 1960s and 1970s: stagflation in the United States, the drug culture in the United States and Europe, even the sharp increase in teenage pregnancy in the United ... freedom, rather than more intervention, is the path to economic recovery and sustained growth. But so long as the interventionists retain the upper hand in the councils of West- ern governments and ... in their original, unedited form, and none has been altered in light of the world-shaking and world-shaping terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York and the...

... in terms of MiCA and MaCA in details. Therefore, within this study, the author focuses on analyzing and contrasting them in terms of MiCA (concerning grammatical and semantic features of the ... morphological features. Furthermore, ‘run’ and ‘chạy’ coincide in their general meanings and meanings in some idioms. Interestingly, ‘run’ is richer in meanings, consequently richer in synonyms than ... meanings, their idioms, their synonyms and other microlinguistic factors that effect the uses of the two verbs. The findings of the study on the ground of general meanings may help the translators...

... at random. Then the data are analyzed and systematized to work out a fresh insight into the meanings expressed by can, may, must and their equivalents in Vietnamese. 5. Design of the study The ... problems in understanding the texts, and especially in interpreting the writer’s opinion and attitude expressed by such typical modals as can, may, must. With all these reasons, I made up my mind ... by the subject of the sentence by the speaker (or by some other agents). In the epistemic world, the must in the same sentence could be read as a logical necessity according to the reasoning...

... both in the mode l and in the data. Mo reove r, price ratios are disproportionately lo wer for short-term debt when short spreads are high both in the model and in the data. 17 The distinct dynam ... time-varying differences i n the prices, and in the liquidity and insurance benefits o f these two assets, which rationalize the mo vements in s pread curv es and maturity composition observed in t ... v c (b S ,b L ,y) is the value associa ted with not defaulting and sta yin g in the contra ct and v d (y) is the value associated with default. Since we assume that default costs are incurred w henever the borro...

... Switzerland Southern Europe: Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain Nordics: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden CEE: Central Eastern Europe | Creating lasting value YearBook 2011 | Creating lasting ... raising/managing the fund (“industry statistics”). • The funds included in the statistics are: private equity funds making direct private equity investments, mezzanine private equity funds, co-investment ... gains for specific objectives so that the principal remains intact • Family office: An office that provides services such as investment management and other services (accounting, tax and financial...