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Brain Drain from Vocational to Academic Education at Upper-Secondary Level? An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
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Jaik, Katharina – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Despite the ongoing debate about how much academic versus vocational upper-secondary education is favorable for a country and large differences across countries of those two types of education exist, the interplay of vocational and academic education on upper-secondary level and its consequences for the entire education system remain…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Secondary Education
An Examination of Academically Successful Secondary School Students' Aspirations with Regard to Potential Human Capital Flight (Brain Drain)
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Atmaca, Taner – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
The main goal of this study is to determine the extent to which academically successful students studying in secondary schools in Turkey that only accept students scoring in extremely high (94th-99th) percentile on standardized tests harbor intentions to emigrate from Turkey in the future. In addition, a secondary goal is to examine why they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Brain Drain, Standardized Tests, Futures (of Society)
Educational Sorting and Residential Aspirations among Rural High School Students: What Are the Contributions of Schools and Educators to Rural Brain Drain?
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Petrin, Robert A.; Schafft, Kai A.; Meece, Judith L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the "best and brightest" youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that rural schools and educators may be complicit in this process as they devote extra attention and resources to the highest achieving students--those most likely to leave their rural…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Rural Schools, Multivariate Analysis, Mixed Methods Research
Stopping the Brain Drain of Skilled Veteran Teachers: Retaining and Valuing Their Hard-Won Experience
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Fibkins, William L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid novices. Veteran educators are not alone: early retirement promotions have become the norm for aging workers in America. Consequently, there is a brain-drain of skilled workers at the national, state, and local levels. The early…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Retirement, Skilled Workers
Does State Merit-Based Aid Stem Brain Drain?
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Zhang, Liang; Ness, Erik C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
In this study, the authors use college enrollment and migration data to test the brain drain hypothesis. Their results suggest that state merit scholarship programs do indeed stanch the migration of "best and brightest" students to other states. In the aggregate and on average, the implementation of state merit aid programs increases the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Student Mobility, Student Recruitment
Challenges to Seventh-Day Adventist Tertiary Education in the Caribbean
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Gardner, Trevor George – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2010
The article briefly summarizes seven challenges that faces the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) tertiary institutions in the Caribbean. There is no exhaustive discussion of the challenges but each is clearly articulated. There is no attempt to address solution but the discussion of each challenge, however, provides opportunity for several inferences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Church Related Colleges, Barriers