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Bindiya Naik; Jyoti Chandiramani; Sudipa Majumdar – Cogent Education, 2024
India, with the third largest higher education system globally, has the lowest gross enrolment ratio compared to G20 nations. The National Education Policy 2020 has made a strong recommendation to enhance the gross enrolment ratio for higher education to 50% by 2035. This figure stood at 19.4% in 2010 and 28.4% in 2021-22. The study, therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inclusion, Enrollment
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McNay, Ian – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Recent events show a government in constant changes of mind about how to control implementation of frequently changing policies, and the inefficiencies and inequalities that result from capitalistic approaches to public service functions. These same factors feature within higher education (HE), demonstrating that the values, culture, decision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, Competence
Pilat, Dirk – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Increasing workload due to reduced numbers of general practitioners, a population boom and an aging population has increased the need for accessible distance learning for the UK's primary care doctors. The Royal College of General Practitioners is now in its eighth year of delivering high quality e-learning to 72,000 registered users via its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Health Care, Case Studies, Physicians
Kelly, Scott – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2017
The dramatic rise in the number of university students holding BTECs [Business and Technology Education Councils] raises important questions about the purpose of the qualification and whether it should be treated by policymakers as part of an academic or vocational pathway. Scott Kelly discusses these issues and makes a number of recommendations…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Academic Standards, Student Characteristics, Enrollment Rate
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Noden, Philip; Shiner, Michael; Modood, Tariq – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
Previous research suggested that candidates from some black and minority ethnic groups were less likely to receive an offer of a place from an "old" university. These findings were disputed in a re-analysis carried out for HEFCE which found that only Pakistani candidates were significantly less likely to receive offers (from both…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Selective Admission
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Millar, Robin – School Science Review, 2010
This article discusses the findings of a survey of centres using the "Twenty First Century Science" suite of GCSE courses, focusing on the impact of its introduction on the number of students beginning AS-level courses in the sciences. The data indicate increases of 24% to 38% in the numbers beginning AS-level courses in the three main…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Science Interests, Student Participation, Science Education
Lee, Richard; Longcroft, Adam – Adults Learning, 2009
In September 2007 the Government withdrew HEFCE funding for students studying for a second higher qualification at a level equal to or lower than their first--the so-called equivalent or lower qualification (or ELQ) rule. This policy hit students and universities in England, though not those in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. In a recent…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Archaeology
Moffitt, Robert – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
A long-standing issue in the literature on education is whether marginal returns to education fall as education rises. If the population differs in its rate of return, a closely related question is whether marginal returns to higher education fall as a greater fraction of the population enrolls. This paper proposes a nonparametric method of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods
Ramsden, Brian; Brown, Nigel – Universities UK, 2007
This is the second annual report on the effects of the introduction of the new higher education fees arrangements for UK and EU domiciled full-time undergraduates attending higher education institutions in England funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. It brings together a range of information from publicly accessible sources…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Tuition
Universities UK, 2010
This report provides an comprehensive analysis of the way recession is impacting upon graduate outcomes. Data used in this report reflects the current level of applications to higher education (HE) for 2010 entry, but, due to data collection timing differences, the employment and training destinations of the graduating cohorts of 2005/06-2008/09.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Evidence, Foreign Countries
Universities UK, 2010
This paper presents facts and figures of the international higher education. Facts reveal that the UK sells more brainpower per capita than anywhere else in the world. The UK has 1% of the world's population but undertakes 5% of the world's scientific research and produces 14% of the world's most highly cited papers (Universities UK 2010). More…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Campuses, Student Mobility
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Schaeper, Hilde – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
Taking an international comparative perspective, the paper seeks to identify conditions that favour or impede participation in continuing higher education (CHE), and to answer the question what lessons can be learned from other countries. To this end we present selected findings of a secondary analysis of data from seven countries and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Higher Education, Comparative Education
Ormerod, M. B. – Chemistry in Britain, 1978
Reviews declines in chemistry enrollment in English universities and considers questions relating to why enrollment declines are occurring. (SL)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Enrollment, Enrollment Rate
Blaxter, Loraine – Adults Learning (England), 1999
Points out ways in which recordkeeping and methods of counting participants in adult education can be misleading and disempowering. Highlights lack of agreement over definitions of terms, ways in which information is used to allocate funding, and privacy and confidentiality issues. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Confidentiality, Educational Finance
Boorman, Susan; Brown, Nigel; Payne, Philip; Ramsden, Brian – Universities UK, 2006
This is the report on part-time study in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) for Universities UK and GuildHE (previously SCOP) from Nigel Brown Associates. It forms Strand 2 of the wider research into part-time higher education commissioned by Universities UK and GuildHE using quantitative data not available from published sources and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Colleges
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