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 ...
We also compare the results obtained for fully online education with those for face-to-face learning. The analyses show that interaction in online education has diminishing returns, while in face-to-face learning it does not do so in a pure way. These results have implications for determining ...
The global shift to ‘emergency online learning’ caused by the shuttering of campuses is likely to be one of the biggest ever changes to education. In 2020 there were estimates that more than 90 per cent of the world’s learners, more than 1.5 billion people, were confined to their homes...
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 ...
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 the Digital Learning Compass: Distance Education Enroll
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;...
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 role of higher education in social and spatial mobility has attracted considerable attention. However, there are very few countrywide databases that follow the career paths of graduates from their place of birth, through their enrollment in universit
community colleges may represent their only access to higher education in the United States (Boggs,2011). For example, first-generation students may not be prepared for their courses because they may overestimate their ability due to their lack of knowledge about the rigor of college-level courses...