Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition—Empirical evidence from German counties

Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia

doi:10.1007/s10037-018-0127-1

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“…PTR was found neither to be related to geographical boundaries [85] nor contributes to bullying behaviors [86]. Furthermore, PTR is not associated with matriculation pass rate [87], career choice of pupils after school [88], educational qualifications or remuneration [89][90] and greenness performance [91].…”

Section: Ptr Is Not a Significant Predictormentioning

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Learning Analytics: Issues on the Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Primary Schools in Nigeria

Opanuga

Okagbue

Oguntunde

et al. 2019

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) is one of the key measurements of quality education. This article presents the pupil-teacher ratio for 133 public primary schools in a local government area (LGA) of Ogun State, Nigeria. The data were obtained from a complete enumeration of the records of each school. It was discovered that the average PTR obtained from the data analysis is higher than the national average. Using PTR equals 35 as a benchmark of Nigeria, only 25 (19%) schools out of the 133 schools considered have an acceptable PTR (below 35), 52 (39%) schools have a moderate PTR (between 35 and 50) and 56 (42%) schools have unacceptable and high PTR (above 50). This article shows that there is high pupil-teacher ratio in the country’s public primary schools. This research will be helpful in the following; educational evaluation and assessment, audit and quality assurance, decision makers in the Ministry of Education in gap analysis for recruitment purposes, assessing the level of implementation of policies on education and monitoring of the progress made in attaining development sustainable goals (SDG) as it relates to access to quality education.

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Section: Ptr Is Not a Significant Predictormentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Analytics: Issues on the Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Primary Schools in Nigeria

Opanuga

Okagbue

Oguntunde

et al. 2019

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Party Ideology and Vocational Education Spending: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Bischoff

Hauschildt

2020

CESifo Economic Studies

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We provide—to the best of our knowledge—the first empirical study on the political economy of public spending on vocational education. Vocational schools raise human capital among non-academics and give the latter a stronger bargaining position in wage negotiation—thereby supporting the clientele of leftwing parties. At the same time, they provide publicly funded inputs that raise firm productivity—an aim particularly important for conservative parties. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools of 301 West-German counties between 2002 and 2013 using two-way fixed effects and mixed models. We find the counties’ expenditures on vocational schools to decrease in the political power of Social Democrats and increase in the political power of Christian conservatives in the county council. Expenditures are higher in election years. We find no support for the conjecture building on Jensen (2011, Compar. Polit. Stud. 44, 412–435) according to which expenditures on vocational education are higher in regions suffering from deindustrialization. (JEL codes: H75, D72).

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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition—Empirical evidence from German counties

Cited by 2 publications

References 34 publications

Learning Analytics: Issues on the Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Primary Schools in Nigeria

Learning Analytics: Issues on the Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Primary Schools in Nigeria

Party Ideology and Vocational Education Spending: Empirical Evidence from Germany

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