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García Botero, Gustavo; García Botero, Jacqueline; Questier, Frederik – The EUROCALL Review, 2017
In June 2015, the Colombian government via the Labor Ministry announced a project for young workers called "40.000 Primeros Empleos". In the framework of this project, the Ministry of Labor signed an alliance with the language platform Duolingo as a strategy to provide participants with English learning opportunities and a free language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Language Acquisition, English (Second Language)
Saavedra, Juan Esteban – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Chapter 1 examines the effects of college quality on students' learning, employment and earnings in Colombia. Scores on a national college "entry" test solely determine admission to many selective Colombian universities, creating exogenous peer and resource quality variation near admission cutoffs. In one regression discontinuity (RD)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Productivity, Vocational Schools