Increasing reference in the media and public discussions to high and rising levels of graduate unemployment in the South African labour market has raised concern about the functionality of South Africa’s higher education system and the employability of the graduates that it produces. While...

Today, higher education institutions are recognised as the key agent in creating knowledge society and knowledge-based economy. The key task to achieve this objective is to prepare doctoral students for careers in various sectors of society, especially in the economy. In the past few years, the...

We live in a world where globalisation and internationalisation affect the whole of society. Higher education is not an exception. The effects of internationalisation in higher education are reflected in the increased number of international projects, student exchanges, cooperation of academic...

There is no doubt that education is very important which reinforces the tendency to start the process of education in the early years and extended into the third decade of someone’s life. Today, individuals even with higher education do not have a guarantee to get a job and this is why it is...

The results of the project Leonardo da Vinci VETPRO Mobility titled "The internationalization of education in WSPA" implemented at the College of Business and Administration in Lublin (WSPA) are presented in this paper. The project aimed to develop a strategy for the foreign students’...

This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education supply in increasing the equality of post-secondary education opportunities. It examines Italy�s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted universities to offer a wider range of degree courses and to open new...

The global increase in the demand for tertiary education, with higher education systems expanding in many countries from elite systems to universal access, necessitated changes to the nature of higher education financing. Tuition fees, or other charges (where it was previously free) were...

Higher education displays characteristics of both private and public goods and there is a trend worldwide to expect individuals to pay more of the costs of their higher education. In South Africa public funding of higher education decreased from 0.86% of GDP in 1986 to only 0.66% in 2006. Due to...

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...