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Independent Schooling in South Africa

In South Africa tuition fees have, contrary to the law, excluded many children of the poor from public schools. The relative privileged position of formerly white schools has been reinforced. At the same time private schools have increase in the low

Independent Schooling in South Africa

Education and the Free Society

Education, understood as the activity of sustaining and transmitting of culture needs freedom as a condition of ist existence. Potentially it is always in conflict with other interests and institutions in society.

Education and the Free Society

Europe and Education

Competing educational and training systems strengthen Europe and her member states. A European capital market for investment in human capital has to increase the competitiveness and integration of Europe.

Europe and Education

An Overview of Parental Choice Education in the United States

Choice in education in the US leads to mor equality of chances and gives more opportunities to disadvantaged student from a low-income family background. School choice has improved the achievements of public schools and their students and has

An Overview of Parental Choice Education in the United States

The Impact of Dezentralized Knowledge on Education

How does the extreme growth of data and knowledge and its half-life period affect the use and quality of education. Education in the 21st century will means the access to electronic ressources of learning at any place and not ending at a certain age.

The Impact of Dezentralized Knowledge on Education

The State versus the Poor

The positive correlation between family income and educational achievement has the effect that in the US the school system does not reach ist goals.

The State versus the Poor

The Use of International Comparative Assessment Studies

International comparative educational assessment studies can be useful in analysing and comparing the average national standards, the differences between the achievements of schools and students, and the effects of given pre-conditions of the school

The Use of International Comparative Assessment Studies

Freedom and Competion: The Future of Europe

The European integration has brought prosperity and lots of liberties to their citizens. But there are also undesirable developements as bureaucracy and centralisation. This paper contains a liberal concept for the future of Europe.

Freedom and Competion: The Future of Europe

The Politics of EU Tax Harmonisation

The European Union has already many powers to raise and harmonise taxes. This not only tifles tax competition, say British economist Richard Teather. It is an attempt to impose the increasingly failing "social model" of "old Europe" on those who do

The Politics of EU Tax Harmonisation

The Moral Case for Tax Havens

International institutions like the OECD or the EU are increasingly impatient about so-called "tax havens" and ask for concerted political action against them. In his provocative study Daniel Mitchell (Heritage Foundation) not only argues that tax

The Moral Case for Tax Havens