The increasing costs of higher education (HE), growing numbers of flexible anytime,
anywhere learners, and the prevalence of technology as a means to up-skill in a competitive …

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 …

This article considers the opportunities and challenges of transdisciplinary research on
student learning in university settings. Fifty years ago, at a meeting in France that convened …

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 …

Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University
students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from …

Higher education worldwide is facing unprecedented challenges—the dramatic rise of
forprofit institutions, rapidly increasing expectations about what services colleges and …

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 …

Although higher education scholars are increasingly exploring disparities within institutions,
they have yet to examine how parental involvement contributes to social-class variation in …