In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...

Parents can play a crucial role in children's learning, particularly when children are out of school or during times of school closures. In this study, we evaluate the impacts of two distance educational interventions, which directly involved parents and were delivered via basic mobile phones,...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University...

The paper examines the impact of proctoring environments on student performance in two different exam proctoring environments: online versus offline proctored exams. This study employs a set of aggregated data from 1762 students over the eight year period from 2009 to 2016 in a university....

This paper investigates the role of education in the job search process of the young unemployed workers. Exploiting the variation in education induced by a reform that caused a dramatic increase in the exposed cohorts' educational attainment, and using data obtained from administrative...

Today’s competitive economic and social environment asks for high educational expertise. There is a tremendous demand for education and training, and many countries fail to meet such requirements. Overall, there is a discrepancy between the need of the economy and society nowadays and what...

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. Thanks to the richness of our data, we can investigate for the first time the role of two...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. It changed the way we do business, and it changed our lives in terms of socializing. Nevertheless, it also brought essential changes in the educational segment. This school year, at the tertiary level, courses’ contents and examinations are...

This paper presents a reflection on the production of audiovisual course materials for long distance Administration/ Business courses. It introduces two theories related to the teaching-learning process that guide the production of audiovisual materials and check students' perception of their...

The growing demand for education and the need of constant update in the various areas of knowledge and culture show that the classroom learning system is becoming unable to meet the interests of a worldwide clientele eager to have access to college education. Distance learning is proving...