NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Trent Brown – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Recent research on vocational training in the global South suggests training may have the effect of unrealistically inflating trainee expectations of remunerative employment and upward social mobility. These studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on training for formal sector employment. The present paper, by contrast, explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Agricultural Education, Employment Potential
Ban Cheah; Martin Van Der Werf; Catherine Morris; Jeff Strohl – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2025
This ROI data tool provides an overview of the median ROI among certificate, associate's, and bachelor's degree-granting institutions, at the 10-, 15-, 20-, 30-, and 40-year time horizons. An interactive table allows viewers to compare ROI across institutions, by degree type, state, and the control of the institution (public, private nonprofit, or…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, For Profit Colleges
Citlalli Garcia; Lee Ann Huang – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2025
Young mothers who pursue college degrees face systemic barriers that can hinder their educational success. The New Moms College Success Program was designed to help young mothers in Chicago persist in postsecondary education by providing individual coaching, financial assistance, and peer support. Chapin Hall conducted a 2-year evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Success, Postsecondary Education, Coaching (Performance)
Davis Jenkins; John Fink; Tatiana Velasco – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2025
In this report, the authors use Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data to classify the 1.425 million degrees and certificates that community colleges awarded in academic year 2022-23 by intent (i.e., whether the program is designed to enable students to enter the workforce, transfer to a bachelor's degree program, or explore…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Certificates, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kei Long Cheung; Michael Thomas; Billy Wong; Laura Hills; Hannah Froome; Nicholas Worsfold; Daniel P. Bailey – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Attention paid to awarding gaps in higher education linked to ethnicity tends to focus on outcomes at the final award stage. Our project sought to scrutinise awarding gaps at module level where these gaps may emerge. Our aim was twofold: to identify the most important barriers to student success and determine strategies to reduce awarding gaps at…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Barriers, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Barbara Class; Moussa Mohamed Sagayar; Harouna Mounkaïla; Amadou Saïbou Adamou; Abdeljalil Akkari; Florent Dupertuis; Ramatoulaye Almoustapha Soumaila; Inoussa Maman Sanda; Thierry Agagliate – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2025
This article contributes to the debate of Higher Education in the context of emergencies from an Open Science and Open Education perspective. It presents the Certificate of Open Studies (COS), a new format offered in a distance modality by the University of Geneva. The contribution specifically discusses how the COS Education in Emergencies (EiE)…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Open Education, Higher Education, Educational Certificates