and aptitudes. Female graduates are less likely to do further study in STEM fields and more likely to enter teaching and …

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …

Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually … happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of …

school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …

lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …