En la última década, la falta de empleo ha mermado la economía de los países miembros de la Unión Europea, que se trazó como objetivo estratégico para la primera década del siglo XXI convertirse en una economía competitiva y dinámica basada en el conocimiento (Consejo de Lisboa, 2000)....

In Colombia and Latin America, barely one half of students who are admitted to higher education actually completes their studies and obtains a college degree within a six-year period. Such incommensurable attrition poses huge social and economic costs, given the inverse relationship between...

Improving educational quality is an important public policy goal. However, success requires identifying factors associated with student achievement. At the core of these proposals is the principle that increased public school quality can make school system more efficient, resulting in...

Teachers’ evaluations in many states include information about their students test score gains. In this paper, we describe the assumptions that are required for teacher value-added (TVA) estimates to be treated as unbiased causal effects. We compare commonly used TVA models on policy-relevant...

Using a unique institutional change this paper provides causal estimates on the long-term effects of early educational selection. During the postsocialist transition the structure of the Hungarian education system changed gradually as new earlyselective tracks were established. These elite...

Educational policy is a very complex process: the all too familiar assertion “we should invest more in education” is really of little help. Investment in education, something difficult to reject, competes however with many other public expenditures also highly beneficial from a social point...

Uno de los efectos beneficiosos de la globalización es la interconexión entre distintas culturas, así como su convivencia en un mismo espacio. Los cambios demográficos y culturales hacen de esto un reto: cómo gestionar esa diversidad cultural para no caer en el asimilacionismo, lo que...

La adaptación de las enseñanzas universitarias al EEES ha comportado que las universidades actualicen la oferta y contenidos de sus estudios. Dando respuesta a las demandas de formación de la sociedad y teniendo en cuenta las características de los medios y capacidades disponibles (inputs...

The current international socioeconomic context has been emphasising the need of a new set of individual competencies in order to succeed in the professional world. A new concept of employability has also emerged, with a person-centred approach, which reflects the need to deal effectively with...