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Lelys Dinarte-Diaz; Maria Marta Ferreyra; Tatiana Melguizo; Angelica Maria Sanchez-Diaz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education enrollment in the world and can play a key role enhancing workforce skills. In this paper, we estimate the program-level contribution of SCPs to student academic and labor market outcomes, and study how and why these contributions…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Length, Educational Quality, Correlation
Badescu, Mircea – European Training Foundation, 2019
These Key Indicators on Education, Skills and Employment (KIESE) are a collection of statistics that are part of a broader set of indicators proposed by the European Training Foundation (ETF) to enable an assessment of developments in the field of human capital in the partner countries. They include data on vocational education and training (VET),…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Employment, Human Capital, Vocational Education
European Commission, 2017
This current study is part of the actions taken aiming to analyse the links between the operations and effects of higher-education institutions on the capacity to innovate in the economies in Europe. Providing insights into the contribution of higher education to the innovative capacity of the EU economies is crucial for policy making and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Innovation, Economic Development
Baum, Sandy; Kurose, Charles; Ma, Jennifer – College Board, 2013
This report explains some of the ways the payoff of postsecondary education can be measured and provides insights into why there is confusion about that payoff, despite strong evidence. Focusing on the variation in outcomes across individuals helps to clarify that the existence of the high average payoff, and the reality of significant benefits…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Role of Education, Outcomes of Education
de Alva, Jorge Klor; Schneider, Mark – American Institutes for Research, 2011
Given the importance of a college education to entering and staying in the middle class and the high cost of obtaining a bachelor's degree, "Who Wins? and Who Pays?" are questions being asked today at kitchen tables and in the halls of government throughout the nation. Using publicly available data, the authors look at who wins and who pays…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship, College Graduates
Shulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen; Jez, Su Jin; Chisholm, Eric – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2012
The Obama Administration has helped articulate the important role community colleges play in educating the nation's workforce and boosting the economy. With a large share of projected job openings requiring college education of less than a bachelor's degree and offering family-supporting wages, the nation's community colleges can make a huge…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, College Role, Labor Force Development
Bollag, Burton, Ed. – World Bank, 2015
A sound education sector is fundamental for the economic, social, and political transformation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC has achieved significant progress in its education sector over the last decade, demonstrating strong resilience following a particularly violent period in its history. The DRC's development trajectory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Public Support
Lynch, Mamie; Engle, Jennifer – Education Trust, 2010
The United States' lack of purposefulness in providing high-quality education to all young Americans, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, is literally wasting the future of many young people, including members of the fastest growing group. Poised by 2050 to constitute nearly one-third of the workforce, Latinos currently are the least…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Young Adults
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Investing in higher (tertiary) education is one of the more significant decisions a person can make. In some countries, such as Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the United States, the direct costs of higher education can be large, often requiring a significant investment of an individual's personal funds, either in up-front payments or loan…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Indicators, College Outcomes Assessment
Moore, Colleen; Jez, Su Jin; Chisholm, Eric; Shulock, Nancy – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2012
The Obama Administration has once again demonstrated the important role community colleges play in educating the nation's workforce and boosting the nation's economy with its recently proposed Community College to Career Fund. This $8 billion fund is aimed at forging partnerships between colleges and businesses to train workers for good-paying…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Community Colleges, College Role
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2011
Innovations in science and engineering have driven economic growth in the United States over the last five decades. More recently, technology has risen to become a defining driver of productivity in business and industry. In that context, college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines provide critical…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Industry, Innovation
Robison, M. Henry; Christophersen, Kjell A. – Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2008
This analysis of the economic impacts generated by Canada's Colleges and Institutes is based on a sample of 61 colleges in 9 provinces, representing roughly two-fifths of the some 150 Colleges and Institutes in the country. The findings from the sample were used to generate results by inference for all colleges in Canada. Two major analyses are…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Economic Impact, Foreign Countries
Matthews, Dewayne – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2012
In 2009, Lumina Foundation officially adopted its Big Goal that 60 percent of Americans obtain a high-quality postsecondary degree or credential by 2025. That same year, Lumina began reporting on progress toward the Big Goal in a series of reports titled "A Stronger Nation through Higher Education". The core of the reports is Census data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Metropolitan Areas, Research Reports
Baum, Sandy; Ma, Jennifer; Payea, Kathleen – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
Students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal, financial, and other lifelong benefits; likewise, taxpayers and society as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when citizens have access to postsecondary education. Accordingly, uneven rates of participation in higher education across…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Benefits, College Attendance, Racial Differences
Akhmedjonov, Alisher R. – RAND Corporation, 2010
Innovation is the key to productivity growth and prosperity. Most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation focus mainly on developed countries. The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research and analyze the determinants of innovation in transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
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