This paper illustrates the benefit of evaluating the effect of education on income using education level rather than years of schooling. The result indicates that an extra year of advance education is worth more than an extra year of basic education.Our findings contradict with past research articles that find evidence of diminishing return to education but are consistent with Becker's[2] and Schultz's[9] claim that the positive effect of education on income is not uniform. Ultimately, our findings offer guideline for nation’s education ...

The efficacy of the Brief Academic Motivational Instrument (BAMI) as an intervention in enhancing the academic self-efficacy and academic motivation of university students was tested. The BAMI is a paper based semi-structural Motivational Interviewing (MI) tool that aims to increase student motivation to change studying habits. Participants consisted of 40 undergraduate students, their age ranged from 18 to 32 years old (mean age 21.23), recruited through convenience sampling at Assumption University, Thailand. Participants were randomly assigned ...

In translation, not only two languages but two cultures come into contact which means that translators must consider who wrote the text, when, why, for whom and who is now reading it and for what purpose. In the wake of rapid technological advances and the need to spread information quickly and efficiently, translation has grown in importance in the globalized world. So has its reliance on English in its role as a global lingua franca. English is often being used for ‘interculturalizing’ native languages but it is also true that ...