The Expansion of Higher Education in Colombia: Bad Students or Bad Programs?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Camacho ◽  
Julian Messina ◽  
Juan Pablo Uribe Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

scholarly journals Expansion of Higher Education and Declining Quality of Degrees

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Beblavy ◽  
Mariya Teteryatnikova ◽  
AnnaaElisabeth Thum
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

The Mobility Puzzle and Irreconcilable Choices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranita Ray
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Work Function ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

This chapter provides an overview of academic debates around the role of structure, culture, and agency in understanding the reproduction of poverty. It is argued that the recent “cultural turn” in poverty studies continues to construct drugs, gangs, violence, and early parenthood as central narratives in the lives of poor black and brown youth, while it privileges middle-class cultural norms. In doing so, scholars ignore the trajectories of youth who continuously struggle to become upwardly mobile. Families, romantic ties, and institutions of school and work function in paradoxical ways in the lives of marginalized youth—providing support while creating impediments as youth are forced to figure out a complex mobility puzzle while piecing together the scant resources available to them. This chapter also highlights how expansion of higher education and the service industry shapes educational and occupational trajectories of marginalized youth. It concludes with a discussion on issues of fieldwork and methodology.

Social consequences of mass access in Europe

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
European Policies ◽  
Mass Expansion ◽  
European Youth ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

The chapter discusses the causes and consequences of having 50% of the current European youth cohort in university. The chapter discusses the paradox behind the democratisation of higher education, which has not addressed pre-existing inequalities. While European policies have focussed on access and destination, the chapter stresses the importance of focussing on the politics of living in university. The mass expansion of higher education has resulted in a protraction of the phase of young adulthood. In this context, it is crucial to look at young people in university as individuals who live a protracted phase of semi-dependence.

scholarly journals Expansion of higher education in Brazil: increase in the number of Undergraduate Nursing courses

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 670-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josicélia Dumêt Fernandes ◽  
Giselle Alves da Silva Teixeira ◽  
Mary Gomes Silva ◽  
Raíssa Millena Silva Florêncio ◽  
Rosana Maria de Oliveira Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Professional Nursing ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Nursing Courses ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Education In Brazil ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

OBJECTIVE: This study analyzed the increase in the number of undergraduate nursing courses during the last two decades due to the expansion of higher education in Brazil. METHOD: A records-based research concerning the legal frameworks that have driven this movement and a quantitative research that described the increase in the number of professional nursing courses. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis (qualitative) and descriptive statistics (quantitative). RESULTS: the political-ideological argument present in the regulatory documents, which points out higher education as a possibility to change the current social scenario, has not been reflected in the professional nursing field. The expansion of nursing courses has been unfolding in a disorderly manner and is concentrated in the private sector, with geographical inequality in the distribution of these courses. CONCLUSION: There does not seem to be a concern with the local needs and with a connection among education, research and extension, which compromises the quality of the education provided to future nurses.

Does expansion of higher education lead to trickle-down growth?

2015 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Böhm ◽  
Volker Grossmann ◽  
Thomas M. Steger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Trickle Down ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

Socio-economic Determinants of Inter-state Student Mobility in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashiranjan Jha ◽  
Sumit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Education Markets ◽  
Mass Expansion ◽  
Inter State ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

This article analyzes the socio-economic determinants of student mobility in India and evaluates the factors that hinder and promote higher educational mobility. It is argued that despite the mass expansion of higher education in India in recent times, student mobility is directed towards developed educational regions. India is a unique case because it consists of regions with a high variation in socio-economic development and has local higher education markets with different levels of competition between institutions. This study shows the importance of the socio-economic characteristics in student mobility. Drawing on the assumptions of human capital theory and the literature on international student mobility, we suggest that individual and family factors are important determinants of inter-state mobility for higher education in India. This article concludes by suggesting how this pattern of inter-state student mobility might have impact on recent policy focus on expansion of higher education in India.

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