Transport and Telecommunication Institute

About: Transport and Telecommunication Institute is a education organization based out in Riga, Latvia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Parametric statistics & Computer science. The organization has 163 authors who have published 415 publications receiving 1602 citations.

How to prepare students for productive and satisfying careers in the knowledge-based economy: creating a more efficient educational environment

Abstract: Globalization poses new challenges to higher education institutions. The main concern for educators is to provide their graduates with an extensive assortment of skills required for the new knowledge‐based economy. To successfully address the emerging challenges education managers have to create an efficient educational environment for providing a sustaining learning process. The integrated educational environment, where students have an opportunity to develop their creative potential, is an efficient means of preparing students for productive and satisfying careers in the knowledge‐based economy. Realizing their strategy educational managers employ a variety of management practices. Integrated management practices accompany pedagogical instruments to be applied in the highly integrated educational environment. The symbiosis of pedagogical and management tools leads to the educational environment enhancement. This paper focuses on some essential educational management issues; it stresses the impo...

Addressing service quality issues in higher education: the educational environment evaluation from the students' perspective

Abstract: Concern about the quality of higher education is on the rise in Europe. To provide quality enhancement of the educational environment higher education institutions should create and implement a strategy for their higher school improvement - a long-term action plan aimed at achieving organisational goals, which includes a) the management of the organisational units as interconnected and interdependent entities; b) the engagement of students in quality assurance activities as enthusiastic and responsible academic community members. This paper discusses the importance of using regular educational environment evaluation, which involves students' indirect participation in decision-making, as one of the most essential quality assurance activities associated with higher school improvement. It also emphasizes the significance of measuring student satisfaction in education, student satisfaction and student motivation being the result of student interactions with the educational environment in the form of ...

The issues of increasing the effectiveness of teaching comparative economics

Abstract: In the conditions of intensive globalization processes, the problem of international comparisons of countries ' development increases The usual methods of comparisons based on macroeconomic indicators today do not reflect the real reality, so it becomes important in the teaching of economic Sciences to give students a methodology for comparing the economic development of countries on the basis of numerous rating studies In recent years, the development of rating comparisons has become one of the priorities of many international economic organizations These rankings make it possible to significantly supplement and specialize international comparisons, to teach students the perfect techniques that allow them to quickly engage in international projects and research, to do business