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Juan Esteban Carranza; Maria Marta Ferreyra; Ana Maria Gazmuri – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) form skilled human capital in two or three years and could be key to upskilling and reskilling the workforce, provided their supply responds fast and nimbly to local labor market needs. We study determinants of SCP entry and exit in Colombia for markets defined by geographic location and field of study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, College Programs, Educational Demand
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Johnston, James; Reeves, Alan; Talbot, Steven – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
The decline in the number of UK universities offering undergraduate degree programmes in subjects such as sciences, mathematics, modern languages and humanities has been well documented and is now of real concern. It appears that economics may be going through a decline in new (post-1992) UK universities with many economics programmes having been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study
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Duguid, Stephen – Journal of Correctional Education, 1997
Discusses the 1993 termination of postsecondary education programs in Canadian prisons. Contrasts this with a follow-up study of 654 released offenders, showing the effects higher education had on their successful post-prison lives. (SK)
Descriptors: College Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Foreign Countries
van Rosmalen, Karel; Otten, Christ – 1986
A nationwide process in the Netherlands is discussed in which a number of specific disciplines were concentrated in one or a few Dutch universities. The decisive roll of political arguments and consequences for future government and academic planning are addressed. Both universities and government believed that ongoing retrenchment could no longer…
Descriptors: College Programs, Decision Making, Dentistry, Evaluation Criteria