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Teixeira, Pedro N.; Silva, Pedro Luís; Biscaia, Ricardo; Sá, Carla – European Journal of Education, 2022
In recent decades, higher education has experienced a massive expansion worldwide, which has often been linked to increasing higher education diversification. New sectors and new types of institutions emerged with this massification process to offer more diversified types of advanced training. At the same time, this expansion was often embedded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Political Influences, Neoliberalism
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Nada, Cosmin I.; Santos, Sofia A.; Macedo, Eunice; Araújo, Helena C. – Educational Review, 2020
In the last 20 years, Early School Leaving (ESL) in Portugal has registered a significant decrease. In order to understand the reasons for this trend towards improvement, this paper conducts an analysis of anti-ESL measures implemented in diverse educational institutions. The main objective is to understand how mainstream and alternative education…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Foreign Countries