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California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
In 1985, the California legislature directed the California Postsecondary Education Commission to study the attrition rate of students in engineering education in order to learn if ethnic minority and women students had a higher drop-out rate than all engineering students and, if so, to determine the reasons for their high attrition. In that…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Science, Engineering Education, Females
Rihani, May; Prather, Cynthia J. – 1994
This paper is designed to assist education planners and policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to identify a range of strategic options to increase the access and retention of girls in the education system. It provides a review of materials relating to the status of female education in the MENA region, statistical data on…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Decentralization, Educational Attitudes