We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....

The article considers the significance, motifs and prospects of the higher education internationalization, as that of the subsequent process of globalization. The strategy of internationalization of the higher educational institutions is assessed in Georgia, the country having been an active...

Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...

Der dritte Bildungsweg, d.h. der Hochschulzugang ohne zusätzlichen Schulbesuch über eine berufliche Ausbildung und Tätigkeit wird von einer kleinen jedoch steigenden Zahl von Menschen beschritten. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie untersuchte Lernbiografien von Studierenden des Dritten...

In recent decades, the number of university students worldwide who have received some part of their education abroad has been rising rapidly. Despite the popularity of international student exchange programs, however, debate continues over what students actually gain from this experience. A...

This paper addresses issues related to higher education in selected EU Member States and its contribution to the creation of wealth. Special emphasis was placed on the shape of education policy in selected countries through an analysis of the main indicators characterizing the same. The paper...

Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...