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Oscar Espinoza; Luis González; Luis Sandoval; Bruno Corradi; Noel McGinn; Trinidad Vera – Educational Review, 2024
Some universities, often the most prestigious in a higher education system, select qualified applicants solely on the basis of their measured academic or cognitive abilities. The universities' assumption is that these cognitive abilities are an accurate and complete measure of the applicants' capacity to benefit from university study. This study…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, College Admission, Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria
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Oscar Espinoza; Luis Eduardo González; Luis Sandoval; Noel McGinn; Bruno Corradi – Research Papers in Education, 2024
In Chile many university students do not persist to graduation. Some students dropped out in the first year, others later. The objective of this study, based on students admitted to but not graduating from selective universities, was to identify factors associated with their academic success and length of persistence before withdrawal. The 707…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Selective Admission, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Oscar Espinoza; Luis Sandoval; Luis Eduardo González; Bruno Corradi; Noel McGinn; Trinidad Vera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
How does a policy of free tuition affect student applications to universities? This article assesses how free tuition influences applications in terms of the selectivity of the university, length of the degree program, cost of the program, and application to a program in the STEM field. The study based on a quasi-experimental design was carried…
Descriptors: Tuition, College Choice, Costs, Program Content
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Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo; Sandoval, Luis; Loyola, Javier; McGinn, Noel; Castillo, Dante – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2022
The objective of this study was to understand which factors contribute most to Psychology and Teaching graduates' satisfaction with their university professional formation. Two factors were assessed: the level of admissions selectivity by the university attended, and the salary received once employed. The participants graduated from three…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Admission, Selective Admission, Employment Level
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Rodríguez, Paulina; Archer, Louise – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper undertakes an intersectional analysis of the ways in which socio-economically elite higher education students in Chile reproduce privilege through everyday practices of whiteness and beauty. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews and observations with 20 privileged students at an elite Chilean university, the paper identifies and…
Descriptors: Whites, Aesthetics, College Students, Advantaged
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Carrasco, Alejandro; Honey, Ngaire; Oyarzún, Juan De Dios; Mendoza, Manuela – Journal of School Choice, 2021
In 2019, the right-wing Government of Chile was expected to implement a substantial reform regarding student assignment to schools that had been passed by the previous administration (the School Inclusion Law). While implementing this policy, in 2019, the former minister of education directed a populist campaign aiming to change policy directions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Student Placement, Politics of Education
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Quaresma, María Luisa; Villalobos, Cristóbal – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2022
The Chilean Higher Education System can be considered an exemplary case of massification based on the privatisation and heterogenisation of universities. These processes have created a dual system, with a large group of universities for mass education versus a small group of universities focused on educating elites. In this context, this paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Universities, Values
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Muñoz-García, Ana Luisa – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This article focuses on the ways in which international students from Chile narrate their experiences in the US, and the extent to which mobility across national borders reshapes social class understandings and privilege. To complete this study, I conducted 13 in-depth interviews and a focus group with five Chilean graduate international students…
Descriptors: Social Class, International Education, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries
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Reyes, Natalia Ávila; Navarro, Federico; Tapia-Ladino, Mónica – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Perceiving new student populations as underprepared is a common response to the expansion of university systems and the diversification of the student body. Latin America, as other developing regions, has increased its university enrolment of underrepresented, historically excluded students, through a variety of policies. This study analyzes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged, Self Concept
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Santelices, Maria Veronica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena; Venegas, Alejandra – Higher Education Policy, 2022
During the last ten years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started admission programs to increase equity in higher education that consider the achievement of students in the context of educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores persistence rates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Program Implementation, Equal Education
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Howard, Adam; Freeman, Kayla – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
This article employs the concept of 'everyday multiculturalism' to examine what students at an elite school in Australia are taught about working with and across difference through global citizenship education within a single-sex classroom model. The authors explore the ways in which larger social cohesion agendas are reinforced through the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Single Sex Schools, Interaction
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Honey, Ngaire; Carrasco, Alejandro – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Chile is known for universal school choice policies and a high level of economic segregation. In part, segregation has been linked to selective school admission policies. Chile implemented a centralized school admission system (New School Admission System), where PK-12 schools must accept any applicant, and lottery assignment is used for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Low Income Students, Admission Criteria, Access to Education
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Howard, Adam; Pine, Jamie; Muench, Weston; Peck, Sarah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
The ways in which elite schools in Chile reproduce power and privilege within the nation's highly inequitable schooling system are largely ignored by researchers and the general public. In this article, the authors address this gap by identifying and exploring the primary class strategies that an elite school employs to secure their elite status.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Power Structure, Social Stratification
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González, Luis; Espinoza, Oscar; Sandoval, Luis; McGinn, Noel; Castillo, Dante – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2020
This study, carried out in Chile, describes difficulties in the incorporation of employability as an objective in the training of psychologists. Prior research emphasized confusion of key actors about how to train and measure employability. To illustrate that confusion, we compared perspectives of university Psychology department heads and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Psychologists, Higher Education
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Verger, Antoni; Moschetti, Mauro C.; Fontdevila, Clara – Comparative Education, 2020
Despite Public-Private Partnerships' (PPPs) growing popularity within education policy circles, research on their effects yields contradictory results. The understanding of PPP effects is limited by the prevalence of generalist analyses that neglect to acknowledge the exceptional heterogeneity of the policy frameworks in which PPPs crystallize.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Policy, Public Sector, Private Sector
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