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Direct linkJosh Freeman – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
Short, preparatory 'foundation year' courses have exploded in popularity in recent years, but they have drawn criticism from policymakers. Like Access diplomas, they serve to support people from all backgrounds to enter higher education. This HEPI Report asks whether foundation years are effective tools for widening access -- or whether, when it…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minicourses, College Preparation, Access to Education
Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Galindo, Camila; Urzúa, Sergio S. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Download full textFoster, Emery M.; Badger, Henry G.; Carr, Margaret J. S.; Choate, Blanche K.; Farr, Maude; Smith, Rose M.; Kelly, Frederick J.; Greenleaf, Walter J. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
The publication each 2 years by the Office of Education of a statistical report dealing with the institutions of higher education leads an occasional reader to a misconception of the Federal Government's relation to higher education. There is no national system of higher education in this country. Except for the 69 land-grant colleges and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, School Statistics
