school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …

Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator - students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …

in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …

for low and high ability students and that important insights are lost by focusing on the conditional mean. The … implication is that while certain factors can impact on whether or not a student is likely to proceed to higher education, other … factors may affect where students go and what they study. …