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Direct linkJoão Pedro Pêgo; Vera Lucia Miguéis; Alfredo Soeiro – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
The complex trajectories of higher education students are deviations from the regular path due to delays in completing a degree, dropping out, taking breaks, or changing programmes. In this study, we investigated degree changing as a cause of complex student trajectories. We characterised cohorts of students who graduated with a complex trajectory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Trajectories, Time to Degree, Academic Degrees
Ferrão, Maria Eugénia – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Degree completion on theoretical time is a phenomenon seldom explored in the higher education literature. We applied variance components models and random coefficients models to the microdata of an entire entrant cohort of first-time, full-time undergraduate students who completed their three-year programme at a Portuguese institution during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Undergraduate Students
Horta, Hugo; Cattaneo, Mattia; Meoli, Michele – Research Evaluation, 2019
The time for completing a Ph.D. continues to be longer than desirable in most higher education systems worldwide. This is a concern for research funding agencies, universities, academics, and doctoral students facing increasingly constrained labour markets, particularly in academia. This study assesses the role of Ph.D. funding on the time to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Financial Support, Time to Degree, Graduate Students
Download full textFernandes, 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
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
Auriol, Laudeline – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
This paper presents the first results of a project initiated in 2004 by the OECD in collaboration with Eurostat and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and aimed at developing a regular and internationally comparable production system of indicators on the careers and mobility of doctorate holders. A first data collection was launched in September…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Females, Labor Market, Graduates
