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Nel Páez, Pedro; Teelken, Christine – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the recent developments in the higher education system of Colombia in order to illustrate how these encourage stratification between (types of) universities and their students. We do so by discussing propositions generated by human capital theory and apply them to the experiences of students and graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Educational Quality, Fear
Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Leong, Yin-Ching – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2016
Since gaining independence in 1957, the Federation of Malaya and now Malaysia has implemented education policies to broaden access, to unify an ethnically diverse population through a common curriculum and language, to enable the disadvantaged to catch up through affirmative action, and to build human capital as the country seeks to become an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Educational Objectives
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
Kuzhabekova, Aliya; Almukhambetova, Ainur – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Using a qualitative interview approach, this study analyzes the experiences of women in academic leadership positions in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. An exploration of the extent of the relevance of Western research on female academic leadership is used to explain the experiences of female leaders in Kazakhstan. The results of the study are consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Females, Teacher Leadership
Lundkvist, Marina; Nyby, Josefine; Autto, Janne; Nygård, Mikael – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Universal public childcare for children under seven has been central in Finland since the mid-1990s, capacitating both gender equality and children's human capital and wellbeing. In 2015, as a further step in the development of this system, early learning and childhood pedagogy was strengthened through the early childhood education and care (ECEC)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries
Albekov, Adam; Romanova, Tatyana; Vovchenko, Natalya; Epifanova, Tatyana – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the factors which facilitate the increase of effectiveness of university education and determination of perspectives of their management for provision of maximization of effectiveness of university education by the example of modern Russia. Design/methodology/approach: The authors define the notion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
Albaek, Karsten – Education Economics, 2017
This paper analyses admission decisions when students from different high school tracks apply for admission to university programmes. I derive a criterion that is optimal in the sense that it maximizes the graduation rates of the university programmes. The paper contains an empirical analysis that documents the relevance of theory and illustrates…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduation Rate, Admission Criteria, Higher Education
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Journal of School Choice, 2017
This article probes ways in which the school-choice marketplace as it developed via chartering has not worked as well in practice as many had hoped. It includes reflection on the profoundly different operating principles and theories of action that separate the district and charter sectors in their pure forms. It also offers market-strengthening…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, School Districts, Educational Change
Shannon, Elizabeth Ann; Pearson, Sue; Quinn, Wendy; Macintyre, Kate – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Part-time postgraduate students make up a significant proportion of the student population, yet their experience remains poorly understood. In this article, a multi-phase, explanatory mixed-method study conducted within Tasmanian health and human services provides some answers. Students reported improved job performance, self-esteem and increased…
Descriptors: Human Services, Health Services, Part Time Students, Graduate Study
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria – European Commission, 2017
This report reviews the economic literature investigating the effects of the share of immigrants in classes and schools on the school performance of immigrants and natives. The review is organized in four sections. In the first section, we document the recent expansion in the presence of immigrants in European schools, introduce a measure of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Segregation, Immigrants, Outcomes of Education
Khan, Ruhi; Grijalva, Rebecca; Enriquez-Gates, Alejandra – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
Professional development is essential in supporting teachers as change agents to foster international educational reform. Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College acknowledged its role in supporting visiting teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in utilizing action research as an opportunity for professional development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Change Agents, Educational Change
Boocock, Andrew – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
Leadership in the post-incorporation English further education system has not been distributed in nature, but transactional, driven by the external demands of funding and inspection regimes. However, in the light of the current rhetoric of localism in further education policy there is a view that distributed leadership would be an appropriate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Instructional Leadership, Inspection, Leadership Styles
McBride, Vincent – European Training Foundation, 2019
This European Training Foundation (ETF) assessment provides an external, forward-looking analysis of human capital development issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vocational education and training (VET) policy responses from a lifelong learning perspective. It identifies challenges related to education and training policy and practice that hinder…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
Reichenberg, Monica; Andreassen, Rune – Reading Psychology, 2018
The present study compares how Swedish (n = 340) and Norwegian (n = 236) teachers' human capital and social capital support reading habits as an aspect of professional development. The overall aim was to describe how teachers' human and social capital support their professional development as measured by the aspect of reading habits during leisure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Faculty Development, Human Capital
O'Connor, Sinéad – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
Internationalisation of higher education in Ireland has been identified as a pathway to economic recovery through encouraging student mobility and attracting highly skilled human capital. International students constitute one element of recent Irish immigration trends, presenting new challenges for a society in which diversity is a relatively…
Descriptors: International Education, Human Capital, Social Capital, Foreign Countries