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Stöver, Britta – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
The policy measure G8 was supposed to bring German school leavers into university earlier. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of G8 on the transition from school into university using a difference-in-differences set-up within panel estimation with fixed effects. In comparison to a number of other studies in this paper, the complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Wakeling, Paul; Jefferies, Katie – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
We exploit changes in student funding policies across the four UK nations and the Republic of Ireland to conduct a natural experiment investigating the marginal effect of differing tuition fee levels on students' enrolment behaviour. Whilst previous international research suggests increases in fees suppress demand and disincentivise cross-border…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
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Ammann, Claudia; Frauendiener, Jorg; Holton, Derek – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
Before we consider the German tertiary system, we review the education system and consider other relevant background details. We then concentrate on the tertiary system and observe that the mathematical enrolments are keeping up with the overall student enrolments. At the same time, the first year mathematics enrolments for women are greater than…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries