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Grao, Julio; And Others – 1992
This study examined the predictive factors of demand for degrees and academic performance at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). The study followed two cohorts of university students from secondary education to the completion of the third year of higher education. The data analyzed included secondary school qualifications, selectivity…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Students, Demand Occupations
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Nicoll, Irena – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Analyzes information from a computerized database of Ph.D. candidates in history between 1921-90. Examines the numbers of doctoral degrees produced at each college within the university, as well as students' gender, nationality, and age. Questions previously held assumptions concerning rates of completion and submission. Includes statistical…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Dissertations
Martin, Oneida L. – 1988
For more than three decades, the courts have attempted to resolve the effects of desegregation on educational quality and educational access. This report reviews a recent court ruling on the 26-year-old desegregation case, Mapp versus Board of Education, in relation to emerging demographic patterns in the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Public Schools…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Black Students, Demography