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Direct linkSantelices, 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
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
Tatiana A. Reyes Hinrichsen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the different aspects of education policies and their socioeconomic implications through three distinct research papers. The first chapter investigates the causal impact of grade retention in primary school on juvenile crime in Chile and it was written jointly with Juan Diaz, Nicolas Grau, and Jorge Rivera. Utilizing a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Socioeconomic Influences, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition
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
Resnik, 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
Martin, Michaela; Furiv, Uliana – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2022
The rapid worldwide expansion of enrolment in higher education (HE) has led to greater diversity among students, with more first-generation learners, HE returnees, and disadvantaged groups. Yet, inequalities in participation persist and have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of flexible learning pathways (FLPs) can help HE…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Informal Education, Flexible Scheduling, Disadvantaged
Santelices, Maria Veronica; Catalan, Ximena; Horn, Catherine L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
During the last five years a group of universities in Chile started to implement admissions programs that consider the achievement of students in context of the educational opportunities they had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores the program theories in a sample of these programs and their effects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Higher Education
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
Levy, Daniel – 1980
A Chilean case study of higher education under an authoritarian regime is presented. The study restricts itself to the most prevalent sub-type of the authoritarian regime which is "bureaucratic-authoritarianism" (BA). The BA designation refers to regimes which exert considerable repressive control over societies that have undergone…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administration, Admission Criteria, Authoritarianism
