In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into profitable business, as well as to promote the creation of new businesses and workplaces within the boundaries of their so-called third mission. This report looks at how Finnish...

Student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017. It is clearly popular with an increase in student uptake from 3.2 to 272.5 thousands from 1987 to 2014. Recent studies show that studying abroad provides benefits like...

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized controlled trial of the effects of dual-credit...

This paper uses an own built dataset on the history of universities in Italy during 1861-2010 to estimate neighbourhood effects in the local supply of higher education, and incorporate them in a welfare analysis. We implement an instrumental variables approach that exploits initial conditions in...

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

Andreas Schleicher und Ludger Schuknecht, OECD, Paris, zeigen in ihrer Analyse zwei internationale Trends auf, die für die Bildungspolitik in Deutschland und Europa von besonderer Relevanz sind. Erstens, ein hohes Bildungsniveau bleibt der Garant für Wohlstand und Wachstum. Aber im...

As concerns over growing levels of student loan debt continue to mount for both students and taxpayers, many have called for an improved accountability system in the U.S. higher education system. In this policy brief, I discuss the many flaws in our current system, and outline how a system known...

Fundamental education is mainly provided by municipalities according to a decentralized model in which local management transforms resources transferred by the federal government into educational results that are centrally monitored. This mode of operation is conducive to the evaluation of...

Die unbefriedigenden Zustände im Bildungswesen haben viel mit der föderalen Struktur des Landes zu tun. Grundsätzlich ist die Bildung Ländersache, aber in der Landespolitik haben die bundesgesetzlich definierten Aufgaben nach Art. 83 GG Priorität vor denen, für die die Länder selbst...

Mit dem Abitur wird in Deutschland das Recht auf den Zugang zur Hochschule erworben. Dieses Recht hat Verfassungsrang, da es aus dem Grundrecht der freien Berufswahl abgeleitet wird. Eine Einschränkung dieses Rechts durch einen Numerus clausus darf daher nur durch den Gesetzgeber erfolgen. Er...