This paper analyzes the education premium of graduate students in Colombia, and the hypothesis of sheepskin and screening effects in Colombia. A new data base was used for higher education; this has been constructed from administrative records of educational institutions and social security. I...

The provisions of Bologna Declaration are ongoing implemented in several South-Eastern European states, members or non members of the European Union. For most states, important restructuring processes for the legal framework and organisation system of higher education were imperative. At the...

Commonwealth funding formulae have caused Australian universities to become obsessed with maximising external research funding. Considerable pressure is applied to faculties, departments and scholars to apply for funding, and relative success in attracting it is given excessive weight in...

In this book chapter I present a multidimensional entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) scale. The scale builds on three established ESE-scales, but the reliability of it is improved compared to the original three scales as the highly discipline-specific jargon is transformed to a more neutral...

This paper defines how an online educational program can be established for any university, and proposes how the university might leverage existing E-commerce products and services to create and operate an effective team learning environment. While implementing the online program, universities...

Esta trabajo tiene el objetivo de determinar el impacto académico en los estudiantes del Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora con la implementación del “Programa de Apoyo Académico”, el cual consiste en que alumnos de muy buen rendimiento académico, llamados Guías apoyen a...

The role of emotional creativity in practicing creative leisure activities and in the preference of college majors remains unknown. The present study aims to explore how emotional creativity measured by the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI; Averill, 1999) is interrelated with the real-life...

This paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration...

Our study focuses on the effect of personality type and personality preferences measured by the Myers-Briggs typology, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample from two slightly similar bachelor majors studied at the...

This study examines the relationship between students' perception of pre-lecture videos and learning outcomes and assessment of teaching effectiveness for a full-time master of business administration (MBA) corporate finance core class. I compare students' perceptions on pre-lecture videos...