Debates over closing the gender gap in postsecondary education continue. Several arguments have been put forward advancing the proposition that women are succeeding at the expense of males. In the US, concerns have been greatest for the growing gap in college enrolment and completion between black ...
The global trend of higher education expansion has increasingly transformed knowledge-based economies, with Hong Kong exemplifying this phenomenon through
The tension, he said, was between the two departments responsible for higher education: the Department for Education (and, perhaps, the Treasury) which might take the view that too many people were attending university with diminishing economic returns, and the Department for Business, Energy and ...
Higher education online learning and distance learning have been on the rise for some time. According to theDigital Learning Compass: Distance Education Enrollment Report 2017, distance learning continued its annual growth trend. In the fall of 2015 more than 6 million students took at least one d...
such as the formation of graduates as politically capable and connected citizens. Many of the non-pecuniary outcomes for individuals have collective flow-ons, as do most kinds of vocational training. For example, the education of doctors and nurses generates salary returns for those health profession...
when do you get diminishing returns, when do you become more of a liability than an asset? When you are too much part of the furniture that you can’t see anything acutely afresh anymore. I do think that after a very long time in one place, that becomes more likely. So, I ...
Education SAT percentiles of incoming student cohorts Majors of graduating student cohorts Beta regression 1. Introduction Education can be categorized as a service (Ng and Forbes, 2009), with students often seen as customers (Bunce, 2017). Administrators and researchers increasingly embrace the concept...
The wage returns to higher education The most common metric for assessing the benefits of a college education is the earnings advantage that it gives workers. There are other important benefits as well, including job attributes such as more generous fringe benefits and greater stability and autonomy...
‘over-education’ and diminishing returns from degrees have, paradoxically, led to more people spending more time in more study. Promulgating the promise of technology has seen the campus flourish into sacred learning places. Higher education will continue to grow in value. I have learned that ...
studies in the USA, Sweden, France, and the Netherlands have varied from MMI, with inequality either diminishing despite “saturation” not being reached by advantaged classes, or shifting from access, to the type and quality of education received (Breen et al.,2009; Hout & DiPrete,2006; Lu...