HE and the Supply of Competences
Yoshimoto, Keiichi / Kyushu University
Pedagogy and Andragogy in Higher Education - Comparison among selected European countries and Japan
Abstract and purpose: This article examines the kind of pedagogical approaches universities are offering young and mature students and how they are producing relevant outcomes for them in selected European countries and Japan by using REFLEX data. Andragogy is a concept of pedagogical approaches for adult learners in lifelong learning, but it should be empirically examined in higher education in relation to the assessment of the outcomes of education. This issue is gaining momentum in Japan, where universities must now provide opportunities for mature learners. In Germany, on the contrary, pedagogies which focus on young students should be developed because of the university reforms related to the Bologna Process. In the UK, mature students are studying more on a part-time basis in the new universities, separately from young full-time students in the traditional universities, so the relevance of higher education to working life may be different in these universities. Hence, in order to find political and theoretical implications for each country, we should compare the relevance of various kinds of pedagogical approaches for different student groups in these three countries.
In this paper, I first consider current policies and theories on the relationship between university education and transition in selected countries including Germany, the UK and Japan. Then, we analyse the graduate survey data (REFLEX) for these countries as follows: (1) student age profiles, (2) comparison of the relevance of higher education between different countries and student groups, (3) the regression analysis on the impact to the relevance of institutional pedagogical approaches and students' learning experiences and (4) a comparison of strengths and weaknesses of pedagogical approaches in these countries. Finally, we present some discussion points on the current situation and the further implication for pedagogy and andragogy in higher education, based on our findings...
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Podmenik, Darka / Institute for strategic and developmental analyses - IRSA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Investments in occupational career as the influencing factor in finding a proper job
Abstract and purpose: There are relatively few employment and labour market investigations which are focused on specific age and educational groups. The paper will add some information and statements about young people preparing to enter the labour market and /or are looking for their first regular employment. It is focused on the transition of graduated young people on the labour market and the evaluation of the investments in young people's schooling.
The first part of the contribution presents the general changes in the field of youth employment, with a special emphasis on the EU countries. Especially exposed are the characteristics that place young first employment seekers into the position of the hard- to-employ populatioFn with an uncertain future. The over-qualification issue is also exposed; EU countries are facing a paradox in which, regardless of the general orientation into a learning society and the expansion of higher education, an increasing number of graduates from higher education studies cannot find appropriate employment. In the continuation we will tackle the micro factors that can contribute to the better preparation of the youth in their entrance onto the labour market and, by this, improve their competiveness and success in the search for their first employment. Special attention is given to the role and importance of the social capital, which young job seekers gain during the higher education.
The second part of the contribution is dedicated to the Slovene context. It focuses on the presentation of the young, high-risk first employment seekers - the young university graduates from study programmes for which there is no great demand in the Slovene labour market. The questions in the centre of the presentation are: do the young job seekers prepare themselves efficiently for the challenges that await them; do they invest into obtaining additional knowledge and in social capital during their schooling? In the search for these answers we lean upon the data obtained in the Evaluation of Investments into Educational Capital and the Youth Labour Market research that was performed on a sample of Slovene students in the period between 2004 and 2006.
Methodological relevance and approach: In presented empirical study the so called triangulation of the quantitative and qualitative methods is employed. Qquestionnaire was administered to 150 final year students, and in-depth interviews were performed with 12 young graduates, employment seekers. The data gathered through the questionnaire were analysed on the descriptive level (frequency tables and relative shares), while the interview transcripts were treated with the content analysis method. The combination of methods gives an insight into the young people social frames of references, the resources they exploit during their studying period and their experiences with firs employments.
DECOWE paper: Investments in occupational career as the influencing factor in finding a proper job.pdf
Sagmeister, Gunhild / Klagenfurt University
Life in balance - reality for higher education graduates?
Abstract and purpose: The main question of this paper is the importance of life-balance for university graduates and how they are able to realize their expectations in different working situations. The main challenges for employees are changing working conditions and the requirement of being flexible and mobile, just in a time period where family time should be available, if there is/was not a decision against family/children before. The statistical data show that this effect is noticeable, especially for more highly educated women.
The preceding dissolution of separation between work and life very often results in a requirement of individual problem solving - employers expect best working results at all times.
Further questions are: Is this only a female problem? What are the differences between large and small enterprises, different sectors, global or local players? Are self-employed graduates in a better position to balance their life?
The purpose of the presentation is to show the different expectations and coping mechanisms of graduates regarding work-life-balance on the one hand and the differences in realizing them in diverse working situations.
Methodological relevance and Approach: Description, Factor analysis, scales
DECOWE paper: Life in balance - reality for higher education graduates?.pdf
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Brennan, John & Little, Brenda / Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, the Open University
Graduate competences and relationships with the labour market: the UK case
Abstract and purpose: The paper will take the form of further analysis and interpretation of data collected by the applicant and colleagues as part of an EC Framework VI project entitled 'The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society', a survey of graduates five years after their graduation. Twelve countries participated in the original project and additional countries have since replicated the study.
The paper to be presented will draw out distinctive features of the employment experiences of UK graduates, including how these experiences change and develop over the initial five years in the labour market. It will attempt to relate these differences both to characteristics of UK higher education and to the ways in which educational credentials are used to regulate entry to and movement through different national labour markets. It will also consider the strengths and weaknesses of the distinctive UK experience and relationships.
Previous research has addressed themes such as the match between subject of study and field of employment, the extent of the utilisation of knowledge and skills acquired in HE, the process of transition from higher education to work, the preparedness for work after graduating, the role of postgraduate and other training, the relationship between a 'first' job and subsequent jobs and the effects on these relationships of factors such as the higher education institution attended, the subject studied and the social and educational background of the individual graduates.
Comparative studies report significant international differences in these relationships and, in a European context, the UK experience is rather signficant with a generally much 'looser fit' between higher education and subsequent employment. UK graduates report a much worse preparedness for labour market entry than graduates from other countries but, five years after graduation, their preparedness for work appears to be among the strongest. The paper will consider the strengths and weaknesses of what appears to be quite a distinctive national pattern and consider the lessons that may be drawn and their wider applicability.
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Johansson, Kristina
Learning for a New Context
Abstract and purpose: The purpose with this paper is to disseminate some results from my thesis; Broad Entrance- Vague Exit (2007).The aim is furthermore to describe some political science students' (mainly) experience of the transition between studies and work life.
Methodological relevance and approach: A multi - layered method was used including phenomenography, discourse analysis and social hermeneutics. Interviews, observations and document analysis were conducted.
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Saginova, Olga / Plekhanov Graduate School
Enhancing students' satisfaction with their university experience during HE transition to a two-level system
Abstract and purpose: Transition of HE to a two-level system creates additional challenges for a university: marketing its programs, ensuring graduates employability after each level, ensuring degrees recognition by the labour market, teaching students with different educational backgrounds in one group, etc. The paper analyses these challenges and their impact on students' satisfaction with their university experience based on a series of research projects carried out between 2007 and 2009. The paper provides some ideas on satisfaction enhancement through course content, teaching methods and study process administration.
Methodological relevance and approach: Secondary data for the paper include publications on marketing of higher education, analytical reports on Bologna process in Europe and Russian HE in transition period. Primary data were results of Plekhanov graduate students and corporate recruiters survey.
DECOWE paper: Enhancing students' satisfaction with their university experience during HE transition to a two-level system.pdf
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Links to related projects: Research included two surveys of graduate students about their satisfaction with the quality of education conducted in summer 2008 and winter 2009, and Corporate Recruiters Survey conducted by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) in which Plekhanov Graduate School participated in 2009.
Wincenciak, Leszek / University of Warsaw
Graduates' characteristics and labour market entry - Polish experience
Abstract and purpose: I this study I concentrate on graduates characteristics and labour market entry chances. The research question is to what extent labour market entry success is affected by graduates' characteristics and how different groups of graduates differ in chances of finding a job. The study of chances of young people in entering the labour market is important for a number of reasons. It is important from the point of view of education policy and its success in matching labour demand with labour supply. It is also important from the point of view of the human capital formation and long run macroeconomic performance of the economy. Successful entry into labour market reduces the problem of human capital depreciation and results in more flexibility in the labour market.
Methodological relevance and approach: The data for this study is taken from the special survey done by Central Statistical Office on a sample of over 20 000 Polish graduates for the period of graduation 1998-2005. Various factors concerning personal characteristics as well as job characteristics and searching behavior can be controlled for. The methodology of this study is based on estimating probabilistic models (ordinary logit/probit and multinominal logit models) of a given status on a labour market. It is assumed that the probability of finding a job within a given period after graduation for a given person depends on personal characteristics as well as on the characteristics of intensity of job search and different measures of human capital and social capital.
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Akkoyunlu-Wigley, Arzu / : Hacettepe University
Wigley, Simon / Bilkent University
A Regional Analysis of Capabilities and Education in Turkey
Abstract and purpose: The value of education is commonly measured in terms of its ability to improve economic growth or the earnings of individuals. According to that approach, education enables society or individuals to accumulate a stock of human capital, which can then be used to generate macro or micro level income growth. In this paper our aim is to examine education in Turkey based on the human capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen. The capabilities approach rejects a development strategy based on human capital, firstly, because it does not require that all individuals receive a sufficient education and, secondly, because it is based on an impoverished metric of human well-being.
In the first place, an approach to development that is based on human capital may postpone extending a basic education to some children if that is the optimal strategy for expanding economic growth or combating income poverty. It may be argued, for example, that the social conditioning of gender roles means it is more costly to expand the educational attainment levels of female children. Thus, prioritizing investment in the length and quality of education available to male children may be seen as a more cost effective way of driving economic growth. The postponement strategy may be further defended on the grounds that income poverty can be best overcome by letting the fruits of growth trickle-down or be redistributed to the poor, rather than by directly improving the earnings potential of the poor. According to the capabilities approach each individual has a fundamental right to at least a basic education because without it they lack the necessary preconditions for doing things and achieving results that they have reason to value. In other words, society has a duty to ensure that each individual can acquire at least a sufficient education, irrespective of their relative ability to contribute towards income growth...
Methodological relevance and approach: Cross-country analysis plus regional analysis using panel data
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Nazli, Serap / University of Balıkesir
Career Development Levels of Junior High School Students in Turkey
Abstract and purpose: Global economy requires individuals to learn about the extensive industry sector, and to prepare themselves for multiple roles. These changes in the perception of career require intervention into career training with new methods, rather than continuing to use the old ones (Baker, 2001; Luzzo & MacGregor, 2001; Saviskas, 2001a; Vondracek, 2001; Blackhurst, Auger & Wahl, 2003; Feller, 2003; Guichard, 2003; Niles, 2003; Tang, 2003; Watts & Sultana, 2004; Amundson, 2005; Guichard, 2005; Gysbers, Heppner & Johnston, 2009).
These new values and expectations dominate the world, and have dramatically influenced school guidance services, especially the career education programs. According to today's understanding, the career management paradigm is not "assisting in making the right professional choice". The purpose of life career management is to equip the individuals with various competencies, (knowledge, skills and approaches) so that they can make many different choices throughout both their professional lives, and in all other aspects of life (Kuzgun, 2000; Jarvis, 2003; McMahon, Patton & Tahtam, 2003; Tang, 2003)...
Methodological relevance and approach: The present study is exploratory and descriptive in nature. 644 junior high school students from 14 schools in three provinces participated in the study. The students were aged between 11 and 14 years, with a mean age of 12.6 year (SD=.87). 338 students are girls, 306 are boys, 197 of them are 6th graders, 277 of them are 7th graders and 170 of them are in the 8th grade.
The Career Awareness Survey developed by Gillies, McMahon and Carroll was used in the study (McMahon & Watson, 2005). Subject survey was the preferred method used in the study in order to compare the research findings with the data collected in Australia and South Africa.
Descriptive statistics were reported, including the mean of responses per participant, and the frequency of responses under each code for the total sample, as well as for gender and grade level. Furthermore, the career development levels of the students were examined to spot any differences in terms of their gender and grade levels.
DECOWE paper: Career Development Levels of Junior High School Students in Turkey.pdf
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Links to related projects: Research data showed that the career development levels of the high school students in Turkey were not found to be at the desired level, and that this fact revealed some similarities to their international peers (Helwig, 1998, 2001; Hartung, 2005; McMahon and Watson, 2005; Walls, 2000). More time should be devoted to the field of career development in Turkey's school guidance programs, and these programs should also focus on the development of life/career management, and life/career implication skills, along with individual and vocational characteristics. School counselors may assist the students by introducing web sites, and they themselves can add to their existing knowledge about professions from the use of these resources. Teachers should also present auxiliary activities in the classrooms to help the students associate the things they learn along with the career knowledge.
Ulusoy, Hatice / University of Cumhuriyet
Oztürk Nezaket / University Akdeniz
Baccalaureate and Masters' Degree Nursing Students' Levels of Critical Thinking and Factors Influencing Critical Thinking
Abstract and purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the level of critical thinking and the factors that affect level of critical thinking of MSc and BSc degree nursing students.
Methodological relevance and approach: In this descriptive study, The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI), was used for data collection. Sample was consisted of all the students (N=394) who are doing their BSc and MSc degrees in nursing at the University of Cumhuriyet. Data were collected between May 15-30 2005, and evaluated using the SPSS program. In the analysis of the data t test, variance analysis, Chi square and Tukey test were used.
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Vega, Maria /
Detailed Reasons and Thorough Analysis Demostrating why Teachers of English, German, French, and Spanish as Foreign Languages Fail so Dramatically in their Work to Teach any of these Languages
Abstract and purpose: Tradionally, since 1952, when the first Faculty of Philology was inaugurated, in Spain, as in other parts of the world, Foreign Languages were only learned by an extremely scarce number of people, either at Secondary Education or at the Official Schools of Languages ( 1954).
The system, methods, and teaching/learning materias, unfortunately, were in the hands of well-intentioned persons, who could, in the best of places, speak any of these languages, but completely lacked any didactic or pedagogical training and competence to decide how to teach, what to teach, and in what order.Very often as well, the were unable, in some cases, to produce fluen oral discourse, in others, they were uncapable of writing texts, letters, or ordinary documents.
Such was the situation when the Faculty of Philology opened its doors and started receiving 150-200 students yearly. The majority finished their 5-yearstudies, but alas! a great number of university teachers, not yet Professors or Senior Lecturers ( there had been no time for such process to crystalize) could not either master the oral language whatsover. They actually managed with written English, French, German, and Spanish (being them all--due to the endogamic situation of Spanish Universities--so strong....
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Vidmar, Anja / University of Ljubljana
A snap shot of activities of other European University Career Centers
Abstract and purpose: The number of graduates in Slovenia is increasing and that raises the level of professional qualified young people entering labor market. Slovenia is one of the few EU members that has yet to provide systematic career guidance and counseling in higher education. The University of Ljubljana Career Centre is the first department in higher education that actively connects academic and economic realms. Prior to setting up our own University Career Centre in 2008 we wanted to learn how similar career centers in other European Universities were organized. The purpose of the research was finding a general prototype (idea) of what a career centre should offer and how it should be financed. The short questionnaire was sent via email to universities in all EU Members and also through UNICA emailingNetwork...
The responses we received have shown that the career canters', in addition to the main goal - helping young graduates to successfully enter the job market - also offers many different activities such as university promotion, faculty staff training, research or even implementing e-learning...
DECOWE presentation: A snap shot of activities of other European University Career Centers.ppt
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Velon Sixto Luis Carlos & Fernandez Montes Maria Carmen / (Eds.) Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System
Labour Market Insertion of the Galician University System Graduates
Abstract and purpose: This study adopts a different point of view from that of previous work by ACSUG, and relatively recent in economic literature, since it bases its plans and results on the opinion and demand of the final recipients of the cohorts of graduates: the employers. The primary objective of this research is to know what employers need from university graduates and to what extent the classroom training they received meets these demands.
However, the defined objective is rather ambitious, since the concept of "employers" ranges from inclusion of independent work, performed by the graduates themselves, to public service. For this reason, it was decided to survey the employers to whom the work would be directed, focusing in this case Small and Medium-sized Businesses (Pymes)...
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Links to related projects: All ACSUG publications are available in the website: http://www.acsug.es/english/webs/publicaciones.php
Del Fresno, Mercedes / Complutense University of Madrid
Identifying Competencies in Order to Adapt University Languages Programmes to the World of Work : the Case of Spanish University
Abstract and purpose: The aim of this contribution is to identify the competences that Spanish university students must acquire during their studies to reach C1 level of the MCER and to facilitate student and labour mobility. There is a need to identify these competences to define the academic and professional profile of the students and to adapt the universities language programmes to the real needs of the world of work as well as the university studies at European level. Within the objectives of the Bologna Declaration is to assume a European quality level by means of the development of criteria and comparable methodologies, in addition to the promotion of a higher education to the European level, emphasizing the curricular development. In order to achieve this, we needed similar standards of quality that are applied in the higher education of the different countries in the EU. In the Presidency Conclusions of the Lisbon European Council of 23 and 24 of March of 2000, the challenges of the EU to face S. XXI were presented: "to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion . "It was as well emphasized the importance of the knowledge of foreign languages to improve the competitiveness of the European economy. That's why education plays a fundamental role to adapt training and teaching to the needs of the knowledge society. Therefore the knowledge of foreign languages is considered like a key competence that must be acquired to improve the possibilities of use and study within the learning society and to facilitate the mobility and the free interchange of people and ideas. The universities must provide to their students with the linguistic and intercultural preparation necessary to face this academic mobility and later to make with success a labor life in which also mobility will be an important factor. The companies must also be conscious of the importance of the linguistic competition of their employees and of offering the courses of pertinent formation and/or of making a suitable personnel selection.
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Dunzendorfer, Roland & Fröhlich, Martina / BOKU females in research, science and technology
BOKU females in research, science and technology
Abstract and purpose: BOKU females in research, science and technology - is a qualification program for female students seeking a job or career in the public or private R&D sector. There are two objectives of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) with this program:
Specific additional qualification program for female students in preparation for a career in the R&D sector...
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McKinnon, Sabine
Preparing university students for employment through work-related learning - a matter of principle?
Abstract and purpose: Work-related learning has been the subject of considerable debate in the UK and EU higher education sector. How can universities prepare their graduates for employment? What competencies do our students need? Can employability be addressed in all disciplines or just on vocational courses?
Glasgow Caledonian University is addressing these questions strategically. Its new Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy aims to equip all students in all subject disciplines with the competencies demanded in a global knowledge economy by offering them opportunities for work-related learning. What constitutes work-related learning is subject to considerable debate. What activities should students be engaged in when they are learning for work and how can we distinguish between good and bad practice in work-related learning pedagogy? Are students acquiring work-related competencies when they are listening to a lecture on the role of women in the workplace or when they are shadowing a female manager in industry? Can both activities be classed as work-related learning? A recent scoping study at Glasgow Caledonian University (July 2008) revealed that academics and students do not agree on the answers to these questions. There seems to be considerable confusion about the terminology. It was therefore decided to define what work-related learning means...
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Zadel, Aleksander, Skrt, Iris, Cerinšek, Gregor & Poglajen, Manca / KCUL (Career Centre of the University of Ljubljana)
Mission, objectives and activities of the of Slovene University career centres
Abstract and purpose: Three main Slovene Universities (University of Ljubljana, University of Primorska and University of Maribor) have established and developed a joint consortium of University career centres. The unified system of university career centres will enable the effective transfer of information, the exchange of knowledge, competences and best practices.
Performing its main activities, university career centres offer their users the support, counselling, and competence development in order to plan their careers in the best possible way. Furthermore, the employers play a major role in the process of competence development since they are best acquainted with the labour market needs. University career centres therefore produce and reinforce the active link between education system and labour market...
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Ana Julia Bozo de Carmona, María Cristina Parra Sandoval & Alicia Inciarte González / Universidad del Zulia
Higher Education and the Development of Complex Competencies: New Paths
Abstract and purpose: Professional formation in Venezuela follows to a large extent a discipline-centered higher education (HE) model that is divorced from reality. This condition hinders the development of complex professional competencies and the performance assessment necessary to overcome developing problems through integral formation processes. This paper aims to disclose two emerging modes of academic formation within some Venezuelan public universities which seek to subvert this educational deficiency. First, the inclusion in curricula of a project innovatively designed to join together contextual problems, formation, and research; and second, National Formation Programs that address priority fields of development while bearing an interdisciplinary, contextualized, and cooperative approach. Both innovations embody the development of complex professional competencies and demand permanent performance assessment throughout formation processes.
The project conceived as such liaison represents firstly a triggering axis of integration between formative research, community problems and efforts towards their resolution. Secondly, it is also a proposal-oriented strategy which translates into an organized manifestation of tasks and practices that include learning, reflecting, and performing (in formal and non-formal contexts) while it leads to social transformation. The project covers from beginning to end of the formation process, fulfilling work phases that comprise academic and popular knowledge. Besides academic actors, community members interact as well in a dialogue that fosters experience and learning. Such interaction allows the continued monitoring of complex competence development which is made visible when formation is in close contact with reality.
National Formation Programs lead to Higher Education (HE) degrees, certificates, or graduation that are responsive to key factors for national development; they are designed and executed in collaboration with official HE institutions throughout the country; they have a common and flexible curricular structure -given that it adapts itself to the changing demands of specific environments and the potentialities of each institution. National Formation Programs facilitate the mobility of students and professors as well as the production, distribution, and mutual use of educational resources.
The applied methodology focused on case studies which feature four national universities that are representative of the national HE model. The research developed qualitative techniques (content analysis, and interviews) that lead to the theorization of an efficient model that enabled the recognition of several innovative modes in education.
DECOWE PAPER: Higher Education and the Development of Complex Competencies: New Paths.pdf
Papadimitriou, Antigoni & Mardas, Dimitris
Developing synergetic relationships with the market: The design, implementation, and evaluation of an internship program for students in a Department of Economics from a Greek public university
Abstract and purpose: Internship programs function as a bridge of the "classroom" to "action". The participation of students and market stakeholders in such programs creates a "win-win" synergy, in order to create interactive relationships, which introduce new concepts as vehicles for thought and a more systematic way of approaching relational issues between students and market stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to present the design, implementation, and the evaluation of a Synergetic Internship Program (SIP) for students in a Department of Economics (2005-2007). The evaluation process consisted of the opinion of more than 200 participants students, market stakeholders (110 employers), and 15 faculty professors and staff participated in this project. Data collected by using questionnaires with qualitative and quantitative criteria. This paper used mixed methodological analysis. SIP was also developed to function as a research tool of specialized knowledge in the labor market. Evidence from students, faculty and employers gave us a positive picture. Our program run well and students perceived that gain extra knowledge to close the gab between theory and praxis. The style of supervision (faculty-students-employers) that we followed during the entire SIP placement demonstrated that was beneficial in order to deal with individual problems.
DECOWE Paper: Developing synergetic relationships with the market: The design, implementation, and evaluation of an internship program for students in a Department of Economics from a Greek public university.pdf
