Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education in Kazakhstan concludes that the education system of the country ‘has undergone dramatic changes’ after it officially joined the Bologna Process. This paper aims to review critically the current situation around the process and...

This article proposes an empirical assessment of a particular component of the tertiary education, the Vocational Education and Training (VET). It presents strengths and weaknesses of different vocational higher education systems across European Countries, focussing on political and social...

Understanding and improving the performance of public higher education institutions is a matter of growing interest to university and government leaders. To this end, this article surveys dimensions of recent approaches to productivity measurement in higher education, illustrating trends,...

Although collegiate attainment rates have risen in many developed and developing countries over the last three decades, they have remained essentially flat in the United States over the same period. In this chapter, we distinguish various models of degree attainment in the general context of...

Purpose: To better prepare young people for the increasingly complex world of work in the global knowledge economy, apprenticeships are receiving renewed attention in countries without a strong history of vocational education. One of the strategies to promote and modernize apprenticeships in...

To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at...