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How Are OECD Governments Navigating the Digital Higher Education Landscape? Evidence from a Comparative Policy Survey. OECD Education Working Papers. No. 303
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Nikolaj Broberg; Gillian Golden – OECD Publishing, 2023
Module A of the OECD Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) 2022 elicited information on policies to promote digitalisation of higher education in OECD member and accession countries. In total, 30 jurisdictions responded, providing comparative information on various areas of digitalisation policy, from regulation and governance to financial and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
What Are the Alternatives to Student Loans in Higher Education Funding?
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Stokes, Anthony; Wright, Sarah – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
In a period of student loan scandals and U.S. financial market instability impacting on the cost and availability of student loans, this paper looks at alternative models of higher education funding. In this context, it also considers the level of financial support that the government should provide to higher education.
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Paying for College, College Students
Collected Papers on Poverty Issues. Volume 4: International Poverty and Social Welfare Policies: A Studey of Seven Counties.
Yokelson, Doris, Ed.; Karsten, Peter, Ed. – 1975
The final and fourth volume in a collection of papers on poverty issues, this document deals with studies of poverty and social welfare programs in five Western European countries, Canada, and Japan. Eight sections constitute the document: some cross-national characteristics of poverty; poverty and antipoverty in Britain (characteristics of…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Child Care in Sweden. Fact Sheets on Sweden.
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Swedish Inst., Stockholm. – 1992
This fact sheet outlines Sweden's policies of government-supported child care and parental insurance provisions. Swedish families receive: (1) free maternity and child health care; (2) child allowances for each child of 9,000 krona per year through age 16; (3) up to 450 days of paid parental leave for the birth of a child, with 360 days paid at 90…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Health, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Education Resources, Results Vary Widely among 20 Nations.
Brett, Patricia – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
A recent compilation of educational indicators from 20 industrialized countries in North America, the Pacific, Europe, and Scandinavia shows rates and trends in college enrollment and graduation, education-related earning power for men and women, and public spending on education. Educational attainment rates are charted for the 20 nations. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Developed Nations, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends
Further Education and Training of the Labour Force. Country Report: Sweden
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1990
Education is the strategic instrument for the overriding aim of Sweden's economic policy--full employment. The fundamental idea of the Swedish school system is to include all citizens. Youth education is intended to take the form of comprehensive, integrated schooling with no dead ends. Adult education occupies a strong position by international…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship