Evidence of consumer distress with public education is provided by the growth of private schools, whose proportion of total enrollments has edged up in recent years from 12.5% of total enrollment to 14.6%, and the silent spread of a well-organized underground subculture of parents who educate about 50, 000 children at home.
Education is about personal and intellectual growth, not about winning some race to the top.
The statistical relationship, controlling for other factors, between state government higher education appropriations and economic growth is negative, not positive.
Its taxes are high, education is poor, and its rapid growth in real wages is outstripping productivity in almost all sectors.
Both sides of the labor market, as well as national governments focused on long-term economic growth, want education that is less expensive, responsive to changing economic conditions, and delivered to students at their pace.
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And one of the reasons why the President is so committed to investments in education and innovation is because those are so essential for our future economic growth.
At best, summarizing all the evidence, we would say there is no meaningful contribution between higher education spending and economic growth.
We know that economic growth in the long run is correlated to education achievement.
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Mr Kim noted that sustainable economic growth is embedded in the quality of our education systems.
Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.
Both candidates concentrate on education, which is a major determinant of both poverty rates and the growth of inequality.
Albert Hudspeth, general secretary of Cobisec, which represents many British international schools, says that market growth is unremitting thanks to the thirst for an English education.
In addition to focusing on education and clean energy, China is also seeking to shift from export-led growth to more domestic consumption supported by a growing service-sector economy.
Assuming a similar spread back to 1985, this index is likely concealing about 20 percentage points of real growth in state higher education spending per FTE student.
Given the enormous challenges that South Africa now faces in terms of social inequality, education and increasingly being a low growth country on a high growth continent, now is the time to find anew the same quality of leadership that saved the country twenty years ago.
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Some 40% of sales are generated outside of the U.S. The company is well positioned to capitalize on emerging market growth, increasing consumer spending on education and the shift to digital media.
"After a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about--jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education--it's worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy, " declares the Washington Post's E.
But it is harder to quantify the relationship between growth on the one hand and investment in education, specifically higher education, on the other.
Mr. Mohaidat of the Abu Dhabi Education Council says that Abu Dhabi's relationship with INSEAD is "flourishing, " citing future growth prospects, and INSEAD administrators say there is no plan to shut down the campus but there are likely to be changes ahead.
But I think when you look at the jobs numbers that we got on Friday and you look at all the jobs reports from previous months, you notice this effect here, which is greater private sector job growth and slippage in public sector jobs, principally in education and in public safety -- cops and firefighters, teachers.
The focus of the budget is on growth and jobs, he said, with funding directed toward such areas as education, research and development, tackling youth unemployment and improving transport networks.
Every country that is committed to inclusion, growth and social justice should have strong national early childhood care and education policies in place.
The education and health services, the thing that worries me about that job growth, much of that job growth is very low-wage jobs.
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If some of the additional revenue is used for public investments with a high return, such as education, infrastructure and research, it raises growth further.
The Ministry of Education, after years of indecisiveness over how to manage the rapid growth of hybrid state-private facilities, is now trying to draw a clearer distinction between them and their parent bodies.
Education has everything to do with employment, with economic growth, and with the future of this country -- which is why the President has stressed education so much in his presidency and why he has made an issue out of the need to take action to prevent these loan rates from doubling.
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