Cross-border education is undergoing new and growing developments such as e-learning, for-profit providers, joint campuses and transnational consortia. These changes are challenging existing national quality assurance and accreditation frameworks and agencies

L'enseignement supérieur transnational connaît des développements nouveaux tels que la cyberformation, les organismes de formation à caractère commercial, les campus communs et les consortiums transnationaux. Cet ouvrage examine la situation au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Europe, en...

We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...

Purpose: We present the state of the art of industrial engineering higher education in the European area and we describe the submitted works to the special issue "Rethinking Industrial Engineering Higher Education in the European Area (EHEA)". Design/methodology/approach: In this paper we...

The author aims to examine the literature on student mobility and competencies in tertiary education with a focus on Europe and analyse the impact of international short-term student mobility on the acquisition of competencies for employability in the 21st-century labour market. The article...

High school honor graduates at a rural high school in the Southeastern United States of America have not been as prepared for science classes at the college level as their teachers expected. At the study site, which is located in one rural high school, honor graduates have been struggling with...