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Constructing Quality-Adjusted Human Capital And Its Distribution Across Countries, Kumari Neha Jha, Bharat Diwakar Nov 2023

Constructing Quality-Adjusted Human Capital And Its Distribution Across Countries, Kumari Neha Jha, Bharat Diwakar

CBER Conference

There is extensive literature on education and its distribution within and across countries. However, the measurement of the latter does not incorporate the quality of education. This paper fills the gap by first calculating the quality-adjusted human capital and then using it to construct a measure of quality-adjusted human capital inequality.


Leveraging Student-Generated Social Media Data For Higher Education Marketing In Pakistan: A Netnographic Approach To Enhance Student Engagement And Branding, Hamza Rashid, Aamir Shahzad, Wisal Ahmad Nov 2023

Leveraging Student-Generated Social Media Data For Higher Education Marketing In Pakistan: A Netnographic Approach To Enhance Student Engagement And Branding, Hamza Rashid, Aamir Shahzad, Wisal Ahmad

CBER Conference

This conceptual paper delves into the dynamic realm of higher education marketing in Pakistan, focusing on the utilization of student-generated social media data as a strategic resource. This paper proposes a netnographic approach as a potent means to harness the wealth of insights embedded in online conversations, enabling HEIs to establish deeper connections with students and refine their marketing strategies.


Examining The Influence Of Household Factors On Educational Achievement Inequality: An Analysis Of Aser Data In Pakistan, Gul Muhammad Rind Nov 2023

Examining The Influence Of Household Factors On Educational Achievement Inequality: An Analysis Of Aser Data In Pakistan, Gul Muhammad Rind

CBER Conference

Inequity in education is the worldwide accepted challenge that hinders achieving sustainable development goals. In Pakistan educational inequality is higher because of widening socioeconomic and family factors, and disparity in the types of schools. This study is aimed to respond to the research questions; what can be revealed about the contribution of family socioeconomic conditions and household characteristics toward the children’s inequitable achievement in Pakistan? And what are the contributions of private schools and paid tuition in creating inequality in learning achievement?


The Cost Of Education, Dania Hassan Apr 2021

The Cost Of Education, Dania Hassan

CBER Conference

Quality of education in Pakistan usually depends on how high the school is charging. However, when private schools charge higher, they also provide the facilities which are shown in the former doughnut chart. Unlike private schools, public or lowend private schools only charge for minimal tuition fee, either awarded from the government or collected from the pupils.


Parallel Session: Reputation Of Private Universities In Pakistan And Its Impact Upon Student Satisfaction And Loyalty, Seema Arif, Maryam Ilyas May 2012

Parallel Session: Reputation Of Private Universities In Pakistan And Its Impact Upon Student Satisfaction And Loyalty, Seema Arif, Maryam Ilyas

International Conference on Marketing

Background: Ranking of private universities is an emerging phenomenon after the establishment of Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan. Ranking is becoming need of time as public and private universities are competing more and more for business and profit. The business of private universities depends upon independent revenue generation; therefore, student retention is crucial for such institutions. Moreover, university image has much to do with establishing the brand in market to attract quality students and faculty and it can be best assured through service quality and student satisfaction. Brown and Mazzarol (2009) have suggested that the university reputation or the …


Application Of Ict Iii: An Adaptive E-Learning Framework To Supporting New Ways Of Teaching & Learning, Amna Basharat, Sh. Umar Khalid, Arshad A. Shahid, Syed Hassan Sep 2009

Application Of Ict Iii: An Adaptive E-Learning Framework To Supporting New Ways Of Teaching & Learning, Amna Basharat, Sh. Umar Khalid, Arshad A. Shahid, Syed Hassan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

To address the ever increasing need and challenges associated with improving the state of Web-based education, a synergistic view of e-learning and intelligent and adaptive tutoring is adapted which is the basic essence of the learner centered adaptive e-learning framework presented in this paper. This framework aims to provide a complete environment of online learning. The conceptual architecture of the framework presented in this paper is centered around the following core features: (1) domain specific learning services (2) student capability analysis (3) adaptive lecture authoring tool and notification manager (4) intelligent assessment engine (5) user friendly e-learning portal. Altogether, this …


Artificial Intelligence – I: Subjective Decision Making Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Advisor, Owais Malik Aug 2009

Artificial Intelligence – I: Subjective Decision Making Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Advisor, Owais Malik

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In this paper, we present and compare two-stage type-2 fuzzy logic advisor (FLA) for subjective decision making in the domain of students' performance evaluation. We test our proposed model for evaluating students' performance in our computer science and engineering department at HBCC/KFUPM in two domains namely cooperating training and capstone/senior project assessment where we find these FLAs very useful and promising. In our proposed model, the assessment criteria for different components of cooperative training and senior project are transformed into linguistic labels and evaluation information is extracted into the form of IF-THEN rules from the experts. These rules are modeled …