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Horstschräer, Julia; Sprietsma, Maresa – Education Economics, 2015
We estimate the short-term effects of the introduction of the Bachelor degree system in Germany, a change in degree regulations such that students need less time to earn a first degree, on college enrollment and dropout rates. We use variation in the timing of the reform at the university department level to identify the effects of the reform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Enrollment, Dropout Rate
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Nokkala, Terhi – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Policy texts present problems, propose solutions to those problems and persuade multiple audiences of the legitimacy of the proposed problems and solutions. The rhetorical analysis of two decades of higher education and science and technology discourse in Finland, Germany, UK, Portugal and USA highlights the discursive elements that contribute to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Rhetorical Criticism
Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
Walker, Alastair G. H., Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2015
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Educational Policy
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Goastellec, Gaele – London Review of Education, 2011
At a time when rankings and the production of data on higher education systems multiply, this article questions the actors' configuration linked to the transformation of statistical indicators into frames used to read the inequalities of access to higher education. Who says what and with what results? Who is responsible for making social facts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Statistical Data, Educational Indicators
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Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
Understanding the role of social policies in intergenerational transfers from old to young people is especially important in times of population aging. This paper focuses on the influences of social expenditures and social services on financial support and on practical help from older parents to their adult children based on the first two waves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Population Trends, Aging (Individuals), Parent Child Relationship
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Rabold, Susann; Baier, Dirk – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Ethnic differences in violent behavior can be found in official crime statistics, as well as in surveys on juvenile delinquency. To explain these differences, research mainly focuses on factors like parental violence, violence legitimizing norms of masculinity, or socio-economic status. Little research has examined the role of friendship network's…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Neighborhoods, Violence, Socioeconomic Status
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Oppedisano, Veruska; Turati, Gilberto – Education Economics, 2015
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequality in educational scores and their evolution over time in four European countries. Using Programme for International Student Assessment data from the 2000 and the 2006 waves, the paper shows that inequality decreased in Germany and Spain (two "decentralised" schooling…
Descriptors: Evidence, Equal Education, Etiology, Educational Development
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Crul, Maurice; Schneider, Jens – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Much research is being done on Turkish immigrants and their children in Germany and the Netherlands, but almost always from a national perspective. To compare the situation, for example, regarding educational outcomes across the two countries has proved to be very difficult because of different sets, selection criteria, and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Objectives, High Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1972
This volume is one of a series intended to provide a comparative view of the education systems of all the member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The purpose of this work is to assist OECD member countries in the development of their educational statistics so that published national data can be…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Statistical Data
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Hintermair, Manfred – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
The German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used in a study to examine its usefulness in diagnosing socioemotional problems of deaf and hard of hearing children. The SDQ parent version was completed by 213 mothers and 213 fathers. The factor structure and reliability were tested, and the prevalence rate of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partial Hearing, Statistical Data, Incidence
Cullity, John P. – J Hum Resources, 1969
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Economic Research, Employment Level, Human Capital
Kruger, Marlis – Ger Quart, 1969
Adapted from the study, Student Im Studium, a Survey taken at three German Universities, published in Stuttgart, January, 1969.
Descriptors: Failure, German, Higher Education, Linguistics
Noah, Harold J.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1979
This comparative study of primary school finance is based on ten studies of the arrangements for financing primary education in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia. Chapter 1 describes the variety of approaches that individual countries…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Smith, Anna Tolman; Jesien, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
Interest in technical education of the higher order has been greatly increased by the European war, and as a consequence numerous inquiries have been received at the Bureau of Education with regard to the higher technical schools of foreign countries. These inquiries relate in the main to the organization and conduct of the foreign schools, their…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Foreign Countries, Classification, Standards
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