scholarly journals Relationship between Entry Grades and Attrition Trends in the Context of Higher Education: Implication for Open Innovation of Education Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Jacob Cherian ◽  
Jolly Jacob ◽  
Rubina Qureshi ◽  
Vilas Gaikar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Student retention has emerged as a significant and expensive challenge for higher education institutes worldwide. Although several studies have been conducted on increasing student numbers and diversity in higher education institutes, studies on the relationship between student retention and entry grades are limited, particularly in the UK. The aim of this paper was to examine the relationship between entry grades and student attrition in the context of higher education in the UK. A quantitative methodology was used in this study, wherein data were derived from secondary sources, including University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) tariff points and full- and part-time undergraduate student enrolment between 2012 and 2017. The data were extracted and analyzed using Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) performance indicators. The findings indicate that there exists a clear association between entry grades and student retention for part-time students, which may aid policy makers, academics, university staff, and higher education stakeholders to develop appropriate strategies to address attrition levels.

scholarly journals Developing institutional strategies to support failing/failed part-time students in higher education

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Graham Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Field Instructors ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Institutional Strategies

This study considers the significance of institutional strategy in supporting failing/failed part-time students in higher education, particularly at a time of such significant changes to funding ideologies in western cultures, and offers recommendations to improve student retention. Building on previous studies by Simpson (2003), Callender et al (2006) the tracking of three cohorts of part-time students on a counselling programme highlights ‘vulnerable’ candidates and explores specific strategies to respond to the failing/failed student. Employing a mixed-methodological approach consisting of an initial online questionnaire, semi-structured interviews for selected participants and the tracking the academic results of failing/failed students, ethical consideration is given to the nature of the programme (counselling), gender-ratios and the timing of the enquiry (post-completion or termination of studies). The enquiry highlights the challenges for practice educators and field instructors in supporting such students. In order to increase the retention of part-time students, the study also examines possible factors likely to minimise part-time student attrition. For the purposes of this study the term ‘vulnerable’ is defined as a student who is likely to leave the course before completion i.e. a failing/failed student.

Academic Accreditation of Work-Based Learning in the Construction Environment

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim McLernon ◽  
David Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Rational Method ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Academic Credit ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Institutional Learning ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the contribution of work-based learning (WBL) to the education of construction students. The research draws on the experiences of part-time students and students on sandwich courses in a School of the Built Environment. The sandwich courses include a year in industry as the penultimate year of a four-year programme. This WBL component constitutes a valuable link between higher education and industry and provides a mechanism for students to consolidate learning in their final year as well as preparing them to take on responsibility in industry immediately after graduation. The paper also examines the relationship between WBL and institutional learning with a view to determining what academic credit is awarded for and how it is awarded. The authors argue that WBL is an essential component of higher education, and that credit for WBL is desirable in a system that promotes credit accumulation and transfer. There is currently no rational method of awarding credit for work-based learning and this paper proposes that articulations in current frameworks for credit accumulation and transfer schemes for academic learning may provide a substantive and transparent means of attributing academic credit to WBL. They also recommend that such a framework should be developed specifically for work-based learning.

scholarly journals Gender Inequalities and Academic Journal Publishing: The View from the Journal of American Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
MARYAM JAMEELA ◽  
SINÉAD MOYNIHAN ◽  
NICK WITHAM
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Women Scholars ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Athena Swan

This virtual special issue is the outcome of a project entitled Women and JAS, which was launched by the coeditors of the Journal of American Studies in October 2019 to document the involvement of women in the journal's day-to-day business from its inception in 1956 as the Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies. The project arises out of – and will hopefully contribute to – larger conversations about the progression of women scholars in academia. While the UK and US higher-education contexts (the contexts most pertinent to this discussion) differ, there are notable similarities in terms of the relationship between gender and career advancement. Both witness attrition of women from academia as they progress from undergraduate studies to PhD and beyond; both see disproportionate numbers of women scholars employed in precarious, part-time and/or teaching-only roles; both see a very low proportion of women in senior professorial roles; fewer women in both locations apply for (and are, therefore, awarded) major grants. In the UK, specifically, recent conversations around gender inequality in higher education have revolved around issues (and initiatives) such as the gender pay gap, Athena SWAN, sexual harassment and the effects of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), caring responsibilities and affective labour.

Higher education, gender, and foreign direct investment: Evidence from OECD countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222199727
Author(s):  
George Pantelopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this study was to explore and empirically investigate the relationship between the labour force across educational levels and foreign direct investment (FDI), and to facilitate comparisons of education statistics and indicators across countries based on uniform and internationally agreed definitions. The analysis focuses on OECD countries. The empirical findings suggest that an educated labour force positively affects inward FDI. However, different educational levels do not have the same level of significance; tertiary education appears to have the greatest influence. As far as gender is concerned, the level of female participation in the workforce seems to be crucial in attracting FDI, and governments should therefore adopt policies to promote women’s empowerment.

scholarly journals Risk, Choice and Social Disadvantage: Young People's Decision-Making in a Marketised Higher Education System

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl Clark ◽  
Anna Mountford-Zimdars ◽  
Becky Francis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
High Achieving Students ◽  
Risk Choice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Rising tuition fees in England have been accompanied by a policy mandate for universities to widen participation by attracting students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This article focuses on one such group of high achieving students and their responses to rising tuition fees within the context of their participation in an outreach scheme at a research-intensive university in the UK. Our findings suggest that rather than being deterred from attending university as a result of fee increases, these young people demonstrated a detailed and fairly sophisticated understanding of higher education provision as a stratified and marketised system and justified fees within a discourse of ‘private good.’ Our analysis situates their ‘risk’ responses within the discursive tensions of the fees/widening participation mandate. We suggest that this tension highlights an intensified commodification of the relationship between higher education institutions and potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds in which widening participation agendas have shifted towards recruitment exercises. We argue that an ongoing effect of this shift has resulted in increased instrumentalism and a narrowing of choices for young people faced with the task of seeking out ‘value for money’ in their degrees whilst concurrently engaging in a number of personalised strategies aimed at compensating for social disadvantage in a system beset by structural inequalities.

scholarly journals EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SPENDING ON HIGHER EDUCATION: A DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS FOR EU-28

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Mihaljevic Kosor ◽  
Lena Malesevic Perovic ◽  
Silva Golem
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Measurement And Analysis ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Proposals

One of the main goals of education policy is to enhance educational outcomes. If resources are used inefficiently, they will fail to maximise those outcomes. Data Envelopment Analysis was used to calculate technical efficiency of public spending on education for EU-28 using the latest higher education statistics available. Focusing on European higher education, conceptual and methodological issues related to the measurement and analysis of efficiency were discussed. The most efficient countries are identified and also countries for which real efficiency improvements are possible. A novel set of variables is used to highlight more appropriately the distinctiveness of the higher education sector and the relationship between input and outputs. The advantage of using Data Envelopment Analysis is that it identifies the best performing decision, making units and not the averages. This type of information about the efficiency of public spending on education is of importance to many parties. It can be used to promote ‘yardstick’ competition in the areas of education where the lack of market mechanisms is apparent, guide policy proposals, and to enhance the monitoring of education. Key words: efficiency in education, higher education, public spending, data envelopment analysis, European Union.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Social Support and The Psychological Well-being of Students Who Work Part-time

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 12024
Author(s):  
Tubagus M Nashich ◽  
Listyati S Palupi
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Test Result

Higher education student often experienced financial problem during their study. This condition encourages them to seek financial support by working part-time. The challenge of being a part-time employee as well as being a student has influenced their psychological well-being condition. The problem will become more complicated when they received less than needed social support. Therefore, it is important to identify the relationship between social support and psychological wellbeing of part-time students. This study aimed to determine the relationship between social support and psychological well-being of students who work part-time. This research is a quantitative survey research. The scale used was social support and psychological well-being scale. The study shows that social support has a significant relationship with psychological well-being. Hypothesis test result show positive value that means if social support increase, psychological well-being will also increase. The correlation coefficient of 0.433 shows the relationship between variable classified as moderate.

scholarly journals Felnőtt tanulók diplomaszerzési törekvései

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Engler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Asking Questions

A tanulmányban a felsőoktatás ritkán vizsgált hallgatói csoportjának, a munka és (vagy) család mellett, részidős képzésben tanuló felnőtt hallgatók tanulmányi beruházásait vizsgáltuk. A részidős képzésben tanulókat érintő tudományos jellegű megkeresések leginkább a diplomaszerzést követően történnek a diplomás utánkövetéses vizsgálatok keretében. Ennek során a felsőoktatásban végzettek szakmai életútját munkaerő-piaci szemszögből kísérik figyelemmel, érdeklődve a diploma megszerzését követő karrierállomásokról, a diploma beválthatóságáról, munkaerő-piaci pozicionálásról, a tanulmányokba történő befektetések megtérüléséről és hozamairól. A felnőttoktatás felől közelítve ugyancsak elmondható, hogy a kutatási kérdések szintén szűk körben keresnek választ a felnőttek tanulási aspirációjára vagy eredményességére. Vizsgálatunkban a tanulási döntéseket, tanulási motivációkat és az eredményességet kísérjük figyelemmel, mégpedig a tanulmányi életút függvényében.***In this peaper we wish to deal with a group of students in higher education who usually receive little attention: the students pursuing their studies while they have a full-time job and a family. Sociological research dealing with people earning a degree as part-time students usually reaches the students after graduation, in the form of follow-up examinations. These projects follow the career of graduates from the aspects of the labour market, asking questions about the stations in the career of the individuals after graduation, the return of the investment made into education, the value of the degree in the labour market. Even the research projects approaching the issue from the aspects of higher education usually do not seek an answer to questions regarding the aspirations of the students for learning, or the success of their learning process. In our examination we research the learning decision, motivation and efficiency of mature students in the light of the academic life.

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