This paper reports upon the results of a small-scale qualitative investigation looking at the perceptions of students and lecturers regarding students' motivations to become teachers. The samples for the study were a group of final-year undergraduates on a non-QTS (Qualified Teacher Status)...

This paper presents the results of a mixed-methods investigation into undergraduates’ perceptions of the competition for Newly Qualified Teacher positions within the primary sector in England and Wales. The study sample was a cohort of final-year Education Studies undergraduates at a...

We estimate the correlation between student’s choice of specialization and the choices of the students connected by social ties. We use data on students of Economics department at one of the Russian universities and show that the choice is linked with the choice of friends as well as study...

This article tests the existence of credit constraints on higher education access by estimating actual marginal returns in the context of unobserved heterogeneity. We estimate higher education returns for those who attend to it and compare them with those of individuals who are at the margin of...

The results of an archival and interview based survey are presented that describe two processes of quantification linked to French LOLF (a new state budget nomenclature and a performance measurement system) as the product of struggles between government departments. The paper finally underlines...

The technology of cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation is characterized by the cumulative nature of learning processes and by the presence of significant complementarities and irreversibilities in the acquisition of such skills [Cunha and Heckman, 2007]. From this it follows that, in...

Anthony T. Grafton, Professor at Princeton University, NJ, United States. Email: grafton@princeton.edu Address: Princeton, NJ 08544, United States.Analyzing modern research papers devoted to assessment of the situation in higher education, Grafton discusses efficiency of learning in American...

Translated from English by A. PinskayaComments by I.A. Prakhov