The present background paper reviews the progress of education including K12, vocational and higher education, skill development and literacy particularly during the last two decades in Andhra Pradesh and an attempt is made to identify gaps. It is observed that pre-primary education in the...

The Chilean Ministry of Education has presented to the public a document that outlines the main guidelines of the higher education reform. Even though this document is just preliminary, we can’t let go unnoticed the insufficient development of one of the most important topics, being the access...

Based on three data sets of information on students of a university in Vietnam, we estimate the factors affecting GPA by using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method. The results of estimation highlight that parents’ occupation as farmers and living location in rural areas have an adverse...

The National Development Plan in South Africa aims to combat inequality. The Department of Higher Education and Training has identified goals for public universities not only to improve knowledge creation, transmission, and exchange but also equity. This paper analyzes the degree to which...

The National Development Plan in South Africa aims to combat inequality. The Department of Higher Education and Training has identified goals for public universities not only to improve knowledge creation, transmission, and exchange but also equity. This paper analyzes the degree to which...

Many countries encourage universities to increase the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of their student bodies, for example, through affirmative action policies. We use unique administrative data for all undergraduate degree students entering English universities between 2008 and 2010 to...

International Student Mobility provides opportunities for acquisition, creation and transfer of knowledge. However, little is known about the students’ impact on the settings they return to. This article examines the impact of Romanian international mobile students on the origin communities....

In this paper, based on report published by the Bulgarian National Audit Office with reference to public university graduates entering the labor market, I try to outline possible ways to overcome labor market failure problem forced by inefficient public university funding. It is the Bulgarian...

For the past decades, different economic policies were implemented in order to better the Egyptians’ living standards. However when we look at where Egypt stands in terms of quality of education and labor efficiency, we realize that those policies did not help as much as we would have hoped....

Abstract (ENG): This paper aims to examine the evolution of doctoral training in Italy after the regulatory interventions related to the so-called Gelmini reform. The analysis is based on data extracted from the Cineca-CercaUniversity website. More precisely, this research examines the number of...