Despite the enormous progress in graduation completion rates along the last decade, academic failure in Portuguese Higher Education is still attracting concern. This is particularly true for some 1st. year critical subjects as Mathematics. Most research and analyses on the issue are focused upon...

As teorias do investimento em capital humano, enquanto ramo da abordagem neo- clássica da Economia do Trabalho, ultrapassam em muito a modelização das decisões individuais. No entanto, constitui este um dos domínios onde mais proficua se tem manifestado a endogeneizaçio das críticas de...

Most Portuguese higher education institutions are increasingly compelled to observe rather strict arrangements in what concerns time to achieve post-graduation studies. Actually European equivalence and mobility procedures in the framework of the Bologna process will not allow for considerable...