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Amani, Monija; Kim, Mikyong Minsun – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
This study aimed to better understand college students' decisions to participate in short-term study abroad programs and to identify influential factors. Our constructive interview data with traditional and nontraditional students from three mid-Atlantic community colleges identified (a) the interplay between individual, social, and institutional…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Individual Characteristics
Troschitz, Robert – History of Education, 2018
While the history of British higher education is not an unexplored field, this article offers a new perspective by focusing on the development of institutional self-representations. Based on the analysis of 133 undergraduate prospectuses of English and Welsh higher education institutions, the article investigates how higher education and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Higher Education, Power Structure
Stukalina, Yulia; Roskosa, Antra; Pavlyuk, Dmitry – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the main students' motivators for their migration decisions, which can be used by education managers working in the area of career management in higher education institutions of Latvia. Design/methodology/approach: Performed empirical data analysis is based on a survey data, collected from students…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Surveys, Higher Education, Regression (Statistics)
Rosner-Salazar, Ari Senghor – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Using a phenomenological method, this study explored the higher-education affordability perceptions of a purposively-collected group of 19 students at the pseudonymous Crestview Community College (CCC) in Colorado. The defining themes of the study were: (a) knowledge of the College Opportunity Fund (COF) program and perceptions of higher-education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes, Paying for College
Gottschall, Kristina; Saltmarsh, Sue – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Online promotional videos on Australian university websites are a form of institutional branding and marketing that construct university experience in a variety of ways. Here we consider how these multimedia texts represent student lifestyles, identities and aspirations in terms of the "good life." We consider how the "promise of…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Video Technology, Universities, Foreign Countries
Serna, Gabriel R.; Woulfe, Rebecca – Critical Questions in Education, 2017
Social reproduction theory identifies schooling as a primary means for the perpetuation of the dominant class's ideologies, values, and power. The ability to access college is so closely tied to these constructs that it contributes to this dominance and marginalization. Social stratification is not only mirrored in higher education, but the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Social Theories, Social Stratification, Higher Education
Atar, Cihat; Erdem, Cahit; Koçyigit, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2017
The aim of this study is to define the problems, expectations and suggestions of graduate and postgraduate international students at a state university in Newcastle upon Tyne, the United Kingdom (henceforth UK). Internationalization has recently be-come the trend and a major component in the current and future graduate education throughout the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Educational Experience
Mahajan, P. T.; Golahit, S. B. – Online Submission, 2017
Ample of the current motivation to teach and assess employability skills will decide India's ability to compete in the world economy. For a win-win situation, there must not be any differences in Institute's perception and students' experience in accessing employability skills for future prospective. What this paper aims to demonstrate is that,…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Technical Education, Job Skills, College Choice
Bass, Lisa – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of 52 high school students on the meaning of caring in the school setting. Seven focus groups were utilized to collect data. Five groups were racially homogeneous and mixed-gender; one group comprised males of various races; and one group comprised females of various races. In the focus groups,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Empowerment, Student Attitudes, Caring
Grim, Jeffrey; Moore-Vissing, Quixada; Mountford-Zimdars, Anna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This project investigated the postsecondary education aspirations of 27 secondary school-aged students living in greater London, England and greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA. An innovative research design was implemented to support a technology-facilitated international focus group allowing for exchanges between the US and English students.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Low Income, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Tobolowsky, Barbara; Bers, Trudy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
With the number of transfer students increasing and graduation still an elusive goal, the researchers conducted four focus groups and four individual interviews with transfer students attending universities in the Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth area to better understand and explore the factors that influenced their college choice decisions at their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Decision Making
Godek, John; Murray, Kyle B.; Karns, Gary – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
Tuition increases have become all too common as states have cut spending to public institutions and private schools face declining enrollments. As such, understanding the effects of various methods of framing tuition increases is an important, but infrequently researched topic. The authors examine different ways to frame tuition increases…
Descriptors: Tuition, Business Administration Education, Decision Making, Undergraduate Students
Wessel, Roger D.; Jones, Darolyn; Blanch, Christina L.; Markle, Larry – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the pre-enrollment considerations of undergraduate wheelchair users (i.e., the decision to attend college, college selection factors) and their post-enrollment transitions (i.e., adjustments from high school to college, academic and social integration). Qualitative ethnographic research methodology was used…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Disabilities, Assistive Technology, College Choice
Deacon, Lisa – Canadian Bureau for International Education, 2015
This report details the experience and perspectives of the 454 French-speaking international students who responded to the "2015 International Student Survey," with an aim of supporting member institutions and the broader international education sector to better understand francophone international education markets and, ultimately, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, French, Student Surveys
Hazelkorn, Ellen – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2015
Rankings work by comparing higher education institutions (HEIs) using a range of indicators, which are usually weighted according to priority. Rankings are used to inform student choice and stakeholder opinion, and to assess the performance of scientific-scholarly research. Research has shown that students, public opinion and government are the…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Reputation, Measurement, Global Approach