Higher education
Alternative labels
Post-secondary education
Universities and colleges study and teaching
Report
AARE/ACDE National education research futures summit
There are many challenges and uncertainties regarding the future of Education as a scholarly and professional field, as well as the future shape and influence of educational work wherever it occurs. These uncertainties range from broader social, economic, political and environmental issues to the more immediate problems of workforce planning. In the face of such...
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Working lives: trade and bachelor graduates ten years on
The aim of the project was to investigate the work, skill and benefit (WSB) trajectories experienced over ten years of skilled workers who completed their initial trade and bachelor degree qualifications at RMIT between 1994 and 1996. Understanding WSB trajectories has significance for theory and policy on skilled worker retention, careers advice to youth and...
Discussion paper
Rates of return to university education: the regression discontinuity design
This paper develops a model to estimate the value of returning to a university degree and the causal effect of a university education on earnings in China. Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the...
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International student security: globalization, state, university
This paper looks at the human security of students who cross national borders for the purposes of formal study.