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Alvaro Carril Rubio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the impact of information and policy on the efficiency of higher education financing, particularly for low-income students in Latin America. Through three empirical studies, it addresses the barriers posed by information asymmetries and institutional discretion in student loan and college admission processes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, Higher Education
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Araya, Pablo; Dussaillant, Francisca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
We investigate the effect of attending selective secondary schools belonging to the "Bicentenario" schools program in Chile, a free education option that is intended to give vulnerable students everywhere in Chile a unique educational opportunity, in the period from 2011 to 2014. By using propensity score methods, we find that attending…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Secondary School Students, Educational Opportunities, Educational History
Dee, Thomas S.; Pérez-Núñez, Graciela I. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2020
A growing body of evidence suggests that vocationally focused programs of study substantially improve high-school completion and longer-run economic success. However, the corresponding recommendations to expand vocational programs may have unintended, negative consequences for low-income, academically successful students (i.e., the "missing…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, College Preparation, Low Income Students, High Achievement
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Zancajo, Adrián – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Education market advocates frequently argue that socioeconomically disadvantaged students could be the main beneficiaries of privatization and market policies. However, the international evidence has shown how privatization and pro-market policies have a negative impact in terms of equity, which particularly affect socioeconomically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Marketing, Commercialization
Graciela I. Perez Nunez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Talented students from underserved backgrounds face many barriers to attaining higher education. Two of the most significant impediments are the low quality of primary and secondary schools they attend and the lack of access to top-tier universities providing sufficient financial aid and targeted support. Lower levels of educational attainment are…
Descriptors: Early Admission, College Students, Low Income Students, High Achievement
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Santelices, María Verónica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
During the last 10 years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started to implement admissions programs that consider the achievement of students in the context of the educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores the program theories in a sample of these…
Descriptors: College Admission, Equal Education, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
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Carrasco, Alejandro; Gutiérrez, Gabriel; Flores, Carolina – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Elementary School Students, Admission Criteria, Questionnaires
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Horn, Catherine; Santelices, María Verónica; Avendaño, Ximena Catalán – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Much of the recent Chilean educational debate and reform has centered around issues of higher education cost, debt burden, and availability of grants versus loans. This quantitative case study of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile sought to understand the longitudinal contributions of combinations of types of financial aid to persistence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence
Elsner, Paul A., Ed.; Boggs, George R., Ed.; Irwin, Judith T., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
In a global society and economy, education and training is essential to a nation's competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. The need to open the doors of higher or further education beyond the relatively limited enrollments in elite and selective universities has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Living Standards, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Swigget, Glen Levin – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The program of the subsection on commercial education of the education section of the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washington City December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916 under the auspices of the U.S. Government, was so comprehensive and the papers of such value that the Commissioner of the Bureau of Education requested the assistant…
Descriptors: Business Education, Urban Areas, Industrial Education, International Trade
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