The research, through a bidirectional approach, aims to develop the university management of the degree programs in order to attract and maintain the potential students, as well as to estimate and manage the costs of the educational services offered during their life cycle. The authors bring...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to explore how diploma students enrolled in a research project paper report their thoughts, feelings, satisfaction, and service quality of the research process. Design/methodology/approach – A survey using a pre-determined questionnaire was used to...

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...

All the so-called “Bologna-process” is paying close attention to many important things regarding High School / University education, such as skills, competences, new research trends, TICs, accreditation and quality assurance, etc. However - to our understanding- is overlooking at least two...

Recent evidence suggests that students are increasingly choosing community colleges as their point-of-entry to post-secondary education. An important question, therefore, is how community college attendance impacts a student's economic future. This study is one of the first to examine early...

This report examines ICT ownership, usage, and skills of Irish gifted and talented students and investigates their experience with, and expectations of ICT use in the school environment. The key findings, based on the responses of 378 CTYI students who participated in this study by completing a...

We model the teacher-student relationship as an agency problem, where teachers are concerned with human capital formation and students --- ability signaling. The model's distinctive feature is that with grading rules unobservable for the job market the teacher finds grades costless incentives....

This article reports a study of first-year students at Chapman University School of Law in the spring of 1996. A survey investigated how minority and all women students fared at a new law school with a student-supportive environment and a faculty that was more diverse than average. Student...