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Direct linkResnik, Julia – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
The recognition of the DP (diploma programme) for university admission is crucial for the development of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools and the expansion of the IB network worldwide. In an era of higher education (HE) massification, accompanied by high failure and dropout rates, intense debates on access to HE are taking place in many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Higher Education
Leonard, Philip S. J. – Education Economics, 2015
The extent to which increasing students' ability to choose between schools can impact their educational outcomes continues to generate significant research interest. I take advantage of the unique context in the province of Ontario, where two publicly funded school systems operate in parallel. I find a small positive impact of school choice on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, High Schools, College Applicants
Download full textCote, James; Skinkle, Rod; Motte, Anne – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2008
Despite the continuing accumulation of knowledge of the factors influencing participation in post-secondary education, there are still gaps in our understanding. For example, very little is known regarding how perceptions of costs and benefits are implicated in an individual's decision to pursue college or university studies, and whether certain…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Cost Effectiveness, High School Students
Drewes, Torben; Michael, Christopher – Research in Higher Education, 2006
This study uses a unique set of microdata on university applications to examine the role played by institutional attributes in choices made by graduating high school students between the 17 universities in the Province of Ontario, Canada. We estimate a rank-ordered logit model that uses all information contained in each applicant's ranking of…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, College Applicants, High School Students
Farquhar, Robin H. – 2000
Some of the things parents can do to prepare Canadian high school students for success in college are outlined. Helping students prepare for a university education is very important at this time because of new job skill requirements, a potential shortage of university teachers in Canada that may reduce the number of students admitted to college,…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Bound Students, Coping, Course Selection (Students)
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. Research Div. – 1981
Summary statistics for fall 1980 application and registration patterns of applicants wishing to pursue full-time study in first-year places in Ontario universities are presented. The number and percent of increase of applicants are presented for 1973 through 1980 for regular applicants and year five applicants (those who were registered during the…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Choice, College Freshmen, Educational Background
