Transnational educational mobility (TEM)–stays abroad between and during basic and post-
secondary education–has become increasingly popular in advanced societies. In this …

The transition from higher education to the labour market is an important period for
youngsters, characterised by extensive changes which act as triggers for learning …

Human capital theory assumes that education determines the marginal productivity of labour
and this determines earnings. Since the 1960s, it has dominated the economics, and policy …

Worldwide participation in higher education now includes one-third of the age cohort and is
growing at an unprecedented rate. The tendency to rapid growth, leading towards high …

Women earn better grades than men across levels of education—but to what end? This
article assesses whether men and women receive equal returns to academic performance in …

The world is rapidly becoming more educated at higher education level. In nearly all
countries with per capita GDP of more than about $5,000 per annum there is a longterm …

In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society
and accumulated a long list of functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of …

A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills
enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked …

The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education is a longer
version of the three Clark Kerr Lectures on Higher Education delivered on September 30 …

Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most
ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults …