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...

University has always served humanity in its attempts to advance in social, spiritual, economic, political plans, and so on, to overcome their own limitations through culture, moral, to ensure a proper education to the young generation who, in turn, will contribute to the development of the...

This paper looks at the relationship between higher education ministers and the performance of the sector that they govern. Using an original panel dataset with the characteristics of European higher education ministers, we find that having a past experience in the sector leads to a higher level...

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...