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Desire Yamutuale – Journal of International Students, 2024
In the last three decades, there has been a rush towards internationalizing higher education. The international double/joint degree programs are one of the drivers of internationalisation activities. Many African universities have evolved to offer their students these opportunities for academic mobility. This study is a phenomenological…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Academic Degrees, Cooperative Programs, Student Mobility
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Davies, Scott; Aurini, Janice – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes three eras of state building and higher education in Canada. Higher education in 'Old Canada' before WWII was mostly a small collection of colleges that bore imprints of American and British institutions and provided personnel needed to develop a vast and sparsely populated territory. The 'Hey Day of Canadian Nationalism' from…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2023
The "2023 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report" is the latest edition of the annual progress report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system. They are: (1) Increase the number of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2019
"The Virginia Plan for Higher Education" articulates the objective that the Commonwealth will be the best-educated state by 2030. To achieve this objective, Virginia not only must increase educational attainment rates, but also must close the gaps in the differing rates of attainment that exist across its population and its regions. For…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Statewide Planning, Brain Drain
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Laptev, V. V.; Pisareva, S. A.; Triapitsyna, A. P. – Russian Education & Society, 2014
With the move toward mass higher education in Russia, academic degrees have lost much of their prestige. It is now necessary to look more closely at the reasons for this devaluation, to explore ways to optimize the training of researchers in graduate school programs, and to integrate Russia's system of science training into the European system.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Higher Education, Graduate Study
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Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
Full-degree mobility from Western countries is a topic that has been little researched. Existing literature tends to be normative; mobility is seen as an advantage per se. In this article it is questioned whether mobility is an advantage when investigating degree mobility and employability of students from the Nordic countries. Results show that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Social Capital, Employment Potential
Connecticut Department of Higher Education (NJ1), 2008
This brochure highlights some of the performance indicators used by Connecticut's public higher education institution to demonstrate accountability. This paper reports on the results of these goals: (1) Student Learning; (2) Learning in K-12; (3) Access and Affordability; (4) Economic Development; (5) Societal Needs; and (6) Resource Efficiency.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Graduation Rate, Academic Degrees
Connecticut Department of Higher Education (NJ1), 2006
This brochure highlights some of the performance indicators used by Connecticut's public higher education institution to demonstrate accountability. This paper reports on the results of these goals: (1) Student Learning; (2) Learning in K-12; (3) Access and Affordability; (4) Economic Development; (5) Societal Needs; and (6) Resource Efficiency.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Graduation Rate, Academic Degrees