September 2009

Research on the cost calculation of distance education based on activity-based costing

The analysis on the cost and efficiency of distance education has important meanings in both theory and practice. This paper tries to analyze the status of the school-running cost and efficiency of the pilot universities for modern distance education at present in China. On the basis of analyzing the major defects of current analysis on the cost and efficiency of distance education, activity-based costing has been used...

Author(s): Zheng Qinhua, Chen Geng and Chen Li

September 2009

Primary schooling in a tribal district of Maharashtra: Some policy relevance

The situation of primary schooling is indeed appalling in backward districts because education planning in India does not take into account the educational needs and aspirations of the poor people. The study focuses the situation of primary education in some tribal villages of a backward district of Maharashtra, India with the help of qualitative and quantitative data. Besides infrastructural improvements, the study...

Author(s): Aparajita Chattopadhyay and Vijaya Durdhawale