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University autonomy and funding is an important aspect in university-level education due to its impact on graduates’ competencies, and on the quality and quantity of research produced. Political factors influence the amount of autonomy allotted to public universities in specific countries....
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high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community … college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … costs of four-year public colleges similarly diverted some students toward community colleges but did not limit college …
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charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with … register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students …. Investigating mechanisms, we do not find that educational quality changed but that incumbent students raised their study effort. In …
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charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with … register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students …. Investigating mechanisms, we do not find that educational quality changed but that incumbent students raised their study effort. In …
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This paper provides an overview of the higher education sector in Canada, so it can serve as a comparison to that in Australia. It seeks to identify stresses and challenges to this sector in Canada. The study also seeks to offer possible lessons for the direction of higher education policy in...
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also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil and …
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to students on the basis both of financial need and academic (and other) merit, with merit influencing not only total …-secondary education, both whether and where they attend are importantly influenced by family background. Among students who score well on …, while only about 75% of those from low SES backgrounds do. High-income students are also more likely to attend private …
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enrollment of the poor by earlier studies. This paper assesses a new initiative of the Philippine government called the Students …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large … confinement measures adopted and the availability of class recordings. We use administrative data on four cohorts of students … of students from different enrolment cohorts observed in the same semester of their academic career before and after the …
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From 1 January 2013, students in New Zealand who entered postgraduate qualifications other than Honours were no longer … students' choices. We use a student's allowance receipt as an undergraduate or her borrowing for course fees as a postgraduate …-ineligible students who enter an affected postgraduate qualification or an unaffected Honours degree. Although we are not able to cleanly …
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