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Kuehn, Larry – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2012
Tuition revenue from overseas students increased by over $9 million dollars in 2011-12 over the previous year. It reached a record amount of $138,848,821. The increased revenue reflects an increase of nearly 500 international students, reaching a total of 9,281.1 (FTE). However, the patterns of inequality continue to be reinforced, because most of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Foreign Students, Tuition
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2015
To commemorate International Women's Day on March 8, 2015, GMAC prepared this Data-to-Go brief as a summary of current GMAT test taker and research data about women in the business school pipeline. Findings in this Data-to-Go report are derived from several sources of GMAT test taker data and GMAC surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015. In testing…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Student Surveys
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2012
While a majority of charter schools nationwide operate in urban and suburban areas, charter schools exist in all corners of the nation, and are expanding into all types of communities. This "Details from the Dashboard" report presents statistics on the number of charter schools and students enrolled in charter schools by the four geographic…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions, Enrollment Rate
Student Transitions Project, 2013
The Student Transitions Project (STP) has reached a ten-year milestone: The STP has now collected student enrollment data from ten years of grade 12 graduation cohorts and ten years of post-secondary registrants, since the project's inception in 2003. The STP dataset continues to be an invaluable tool for tracking student transitions into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Analysis, Transitional Programs, Enrollment Trends
Gambino, Christine; Gryn, Thomas – US Census Bureau, 2011
This brief will discuss patterns of science and engineering educational attainment within the foreign-born population living in the United States, using data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). The analysis is restricted to the population aged 25 and older, and the results are presented on science and engineering degree attainment by…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Community Surveys, Engineering Education, Science Education
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Belcher, P. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2008
In this note the Nearest Neighbour Index is investigated in three cases, linear, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional. In each case the formula is investigated and the numerical values for the data points to be viewed as attracting each other, repelling each other or being randomly distributed are justified. Also, in each of the three cases mentioned…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Significance, Regression (Statistics), Geographic Distribution
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Haub, Carl – Population Bulletin, 1987
Population projections are "what if" computational exercises. Given selected assumptions about future trends in fertility, mortality, and migration, population trends can be projected. Government and business planners need this information, and they also require enough time to put facilities in place to meet future needs. Everyone benefits from a…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Geographic Distribution, Human Geography