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Fernandes, Graça Leão; Andrade e Silva, João; Lopes, Margarida Chagas – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2012
Due to a general development in education brought about by democracy, Portugal has witnessed tremendous development in Higher Education (HE) since the beginning of the 1980s. Nevertheless, the percentage of graduates among the Portuguese population still ranks far below most European countries. This is why academic performance in HE 1st cycle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
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Chagas, Margarida; Fernandaes, Graca Leao – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
Failure in higher education (HE) is the outcome of multiple time-dependent determinants. Interruptions in students' individual school trajectories are one of them, and that is why research on this topic has been attracting much attention these days. From an individual point of view, it is expected that interruptions in school trajectory, whatever…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Articulation (Education), Work Experience