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Raquel Anderson – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
This paper focuses on the experiences of adult learners within the J-1 and other international learning programs. The choice of adult learners to seek education and scholarly experiences abroad is influenced by different factors such as availability of finances, perceived quality of education, and other motivators. It is important to understand…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Study Abroad, Adult Students, Expectation
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Angel, Hiram Abel – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Higher education in Mexico could be observed as one of the most complicated and impossible to understand. Divided into more than 30 autonomous universities, each university system has its own particular process to admit a candidate to study. This makes it particularly hard for a foreign student to study in Mexico. Moreover, the difficulties are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Educational Administration
Barry, Melissa; Mathies, Charles – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
This study was conducted at a research-extensive public university in the southeastern United States. It examined the retention and completion of master's degree students across numerous disciplines. Results were derived from a series of descriptive statistics, T-tests, and a series of binary logistic regression models. The findings from binary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Graduate Study, Role
Camilleri, Anthony F. – Online Submission, 2008
The presentation looks at the latest statistics on participation in Higher Education, to question whether privatisation of systems has significant effects on participation, affordability and equity of Higher Education. It further looks into questions of autonomy and governance of Higher Education systems in private and public systems, and finally…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Barriers, College Attendance
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2007
The United States no longer leads the world in college completion rates. Inequality in college access rates by income have barely narrowed over the last 25 to 30 years and inequality in college completion rates have narrowed even less. The groups in the population that are growing the most rapidly are those that have historically been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Access to Education, Economic Status
Zook, George F. Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
One of the most striking features of higher education in recent years has been the great increase in the number of students attending the colleges and universities. Where the higher institutions have reached a student enrollment of several thousand, the question has been raised seriously as to whether such institutions should not devote themselves…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, High Schools, Two Year Colleges, Conferences (Gatherings)