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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2022
Entering the middle of the 21st Century, Texas has the ninth-largest economy in the world, whose success is powered by the increasingly educated workforce. Texans have earned more degrees, certificates, and credentials over the past decade than at any time in history, and Texas has outpaced every other state in growing undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Educational Attainment, Labor Force Development
Martin, Michaela; Furiv, Uliana – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2022
When making study choices, students often find it challenging to identify their interests and strengths. Higher education (HE) systems that do not offer opportunities for reorientation and transfer run the risk of some students never completing their studies. This policy brief examines the different flexible pathways institutions can choose to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Interests, Educational Policy, Decision Making
Handel, Stephen J.; Williams, Ronald A. – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
In 2010, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the College Board initiated a project to identify ways of improving the efficiency of the transfer pathway, a century-old mechanism that provides community college students with an opportunity to earn the baccalaureate degree at four-year institutions. Both organizations understand that the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Credentials, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students
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Smith, Burck – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
Since online learning burst on the scene in the late 1990s, predictions of traditional higher education's obsolescence and disruption have been steady fare in the trade and popular media. This time the change is shaping up to be more profound than most had envisioned. As alternatives to the degree system (and the accreditation/financial…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Electronic Learning
Ministry of Advanced Education, 2008
In a knowledge-based economy, economic and social well-being depend on the development of human resources, and those with access to education benefit from higher lifetime earnings, lower rates of unemployment and poverty, a greater sense of engagement at work and society, and healthier lifestyles. This environmental scan considers the major…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Credentials, Economic Development, Higher Education
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Arkes, Jeremy – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Examines whether employers can infer information about workers' precollege abilities from acquired college credentials and value attainment of credentials because they signal these abilities. Analysis of 1993 National Longitudinal Study of Youth data reveals that employers value attainment of a bachelor's degree for these reasons. Academic degrees…
Descriptors: Ability, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Credentials
Colleges Ontario, 2006
This paper presents data on Ontario's student mobility for 2006. This report found that the desire to obtain both a college and university credential in Ontario's postsecondary system is considerable. At least one quarter of college students have serious intentions of attaining a degree after a diploma. Currently, over 7% of Ontario's college…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Credentials, Foreign Countries, College Students
Colleges Ontario, 2005
Several data sources indicate that the desire to obtain both a college and university credential in Ontario's postsecondary system is considerable. Aspirations at the start of college are high, with at least one quarter of college students having serious intentions of attaining a degree after a diploma. Data sources include the College Student…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Credentials, Foreign Countries, College Students