This study contributes to the literature on long-term effects of relative age (i.e. age differences between classmates in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus...

Brandenburg’s economy is undergoing structural change, which opens exciting new prospects for highly skilled workers. The state has intensified efforts to diversify the economy towards cleaner and more knowledge-intensive industries, including the development of advanced manufacturing,...

Brandenburg erlebt derzeit einen Strukturwandel, der hochqualifizierten Arbeitskräften spannende neue Perspektiven eröffnet. Im Zuge dessen hat das Bundesland seine Bemühungen um eine Diversifizierung der Wirtschaft in Richtung saubererer und stärker wissensintensiver Branchen intensiviert....

This policy brief is the second in a series of thematic policy briefs in the OECD's Resourcing Higher Education Project. This project provides a shared knowledge base for OECD member and partner countries on effective policies for higher education resourcing through system-specific and...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Encountering global crises -- Approach and structure of the book -- Positioning ourselves -- Part one -- Today's universities: content and challenges -The colonial roots and neoliberal takeover of higher education -- Heading upstream --...

There is considerable interest in the impact of policy alternatives to race-based affirmative action (AA) on under-represented minority (URM) university enrollment. Widely-implemented alternatives include 'top percent' policies, which guarantee admission to top high school students, and holistic...

This Policy Document applies to all undergrad and postgraduate showed projects of studies. The general objective is to keep up phenomenal norms of accomplishment in instructing, learning and research that can enhance the University people group and to be of administration to the global network....

The report on Resourcing Higher Education in the Flemish Community of Belgium is the first in a series of publications produced by the OECD's Resourcing Higher Education Project. This project aims to develop a shared knowledge base for OECD member and partner countries on effective policies for...

Introduction / Roberta Comunian, Brian J. Hracs, Lauren England -- Creative higher education in Nigeria and the case of University of Lagos / Vincent Obia, Lauren England, Roberta Comunian and Duro Oni -- Collaborations for creative arts higher education delivery in Ghana: A case of the...

Introduction: Why This Book, by Me, Now? -- Is Going to University Worth It?-- Who Goes to University, and Do All Have an Equal Chance to Attend? -- What Should Students Learn at University, and Are They Learning It? -- The Relationship between University Education and Jobs -- How Should a...

This book helps readers understand how universities position themselves in the innovation landscape and the implications for national policies. It provides a scholarly discussion and best practice–based insights to help answer questions like: To what extent do funding and governance policies...

This book helps readers understand how universities position themselves in the innovation landscape and the implications for national policies. It provides a scholarly discussion and best practice–based insights to help answer questions like: To what extent do funding and governance policies...

Higher education helps learners acquire the knowledge and skills they need to lead productive working lives, and it sparks the innovation that fosters economic growth and social progress. However, creating higher education systems that operate at a high level of research and teaching quality,...

This book provides an overview of the growth of the private higher education sector in China and in addition provides an analysis of some of the key drivers of this growth and impediments to it. What is new about the book is that it combines the results of a series of interviews with work that...

Only half of SAT-takers retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority (URM) students. We exploit discontinuous jumps in retake probabilities at multiples of 100, driven by left-digit bias, to estimate retaking's causal effects. Retaking...

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

Theorizing governance in higher education : beyond 'the republic of scholars' ontology / Giliberto Capano & Darryl S.L. Capano -- The regulatory state and the labour process / Kanishka Jayasuriya, Greg McCarthy & Xianlin Song -- Systemic governance : convergence or hybridization? / Giliberto...