scholarly journals Low Fertility and Educational Problems in Taiwan: Focusing on the Expansion Policy of Higher Education and Women’s Increasing Educational Attainment

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-226
Author(s):  
Yu-Fei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Expansion Policy

Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities

2017 ◽  
pp. 70-87
Author(s):  
Luanjiao Hu ◽  
Jing Lin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Educational Legislation ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Access Issue

This chapter focuses on a series of related questions centered on access issue for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education: what is the representation for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education? What factors contribute to the impediment of access for higher education for people with disabilities? What educational legislation exist that provide educational guidelines for people with disabilities? What cultural traditions underlie the lack of educational attainment for people with disabilities in China?

Broke and Book-Bound

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Jay Watts ◽  
Gisele Brown ◽  
Michael A. Couch II
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

Education has been historically branded as a tool to transcend conditions that have aided and abetted systems of generational and societal inequities. During a global pandemic, there has been no greater challenge to this view than considering the impact of life-altering events and their implications on higher education, success, and thriving. Specifically, the COVID-19 crisis has put this health-based issue on an international stage, but more specifically, spotlighting how it has exacerbated issues such as poverty, hunger, homelessness, and educational attainment. This chapter will examine the existing literature around the issue of global pandemics on college attainment for college students who are resource and access-gapped and best practices to consider to support holistic success during a global pandemic.

scholarly journals Cohort Trends in the Association Between Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in 26 Low-Fertility Countries

Demography ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1035-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongsoo Choi ◽  
Riley Taiji ◽  
Manting Chen ◽  
Christiaan Monden
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Sibship Size

scholarly journals Educational Attainment and Health Behaviors Among Young Adult Men: Racial/Ethnic Disparities

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 155798831989448
Author(s):  
Jaewon Lee ◽  
Jisuk Seon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
African American ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Although promoting health behaviors are important for sustaining physical and mental health, little is known about young adult men’s health behaviors or how they vary across race and ethnicity. This study examines the impact of educational attainment on health behaviors across young adult men, and differences in the association across race/ethnicity. This study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults. The final sample consists of 3,115 non-Hispanic White males, 1,617 African American males, and 1,144 Hispanic males. The average age of the participants was about 27 years old. Multiple linear regression and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Educational attainment was associated with both food intake and preventive health care visits. Those who received a higher education were less likely to eat fast food than those who did not (β = –.37, p < .001) and were more likely to eat fruits and vegetables (β = .77, OR = 2.15, p < .01; β = 6.44, OR = 1.91, p < .10). Higher education was also positively associated with routine eye exams and health check-ups (β = .50, OR = 1.64, p < .01); β = 1.84, OR = 6.29, p < .01). This study identified interaction effects between educational attainment and African Americans for predicting fast food intake (β = .57, p < .05). Education is one way to improve health behaviors and to lessen racial/ethnic disparities in health behaviors. Specifically, promoting health behaviors in education should target African American men to improve their perception toward the importance of healthy food intake.

scholarly journals Morphometric traits predict educational attainment independently of socioeconomic background

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Valge ◽  
Richard Meitern ◽  
Peeter Hõrak
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Cumulative Probability ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Morphometric Traits

Abstract Background Aim of this study is to describe the relationship between anthropometric traits and educational attainment among Estonian schoolchildren born between 1937 and 1962. We asked whether height, cranial volume and face width (a testosterone-dependent trait), measured in childhood predict later educational attainment independently of each other, family socioeconomic position (SEP) and sex. Associations between morphometric traits and education and their interactions with biosocial variables are of scholarly importance because higher education is nearly universally associated with low fertility in women, and often with high fertility in men. Hence, morphometric traits associated with educational attainment are targeted by natural selection and describing the exact nature of these associations is relevant for understanding the current patterns of evolution of human body size. Methods Data on morphometric measurements and family background of 11,032 Estonian schoolchildren measured between seven and 19 years of age were obtained from the study performed by Juhan Aul between 1956 and 1969. Ordinal logistic regression was used for testing the effects of morphometric traits, biosocial variables and their interaction on the cumulative probability of obtaining education beyond primary level. Results Of biosocial variables, family SEP was the most important determinant of educational attainment, followed by the sex, rural vs urban origin and the number of siblings. No significant interactions with morphometric traits were detected, i.e., within each category of SEP, rural vs urban origin and sex, taller children and those with larger heads and relatively narrower faces were more likely to proceed to secondary and/or tertiary education. The effect of height on education was independent of cranial volume, indicating that taller children did not obtain more educations because their brains were larger than those of shorter children; height per se was important. Conclusions Our main finding – that adjusting for other morphometric traits and biosocial variables, morphometric traits still robustly predicted educational attainment, is relevant for understanding the current patterns of evolution of human body size. Our findings suggest that fecundity selection acting on educational attainment could be partly responsible for the concurrent selection for smaller stature and cranial volume in women and opposite trends in men.

scholarly journals 10 Things to Know About the Shape of Ohio's Skilled Workforce15

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Timothy Dunne ◽  
Guhan Venkatu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
The State ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Workforce Skills

A region’s economic performance is closely linked to the skills and knowledge of its workforce. Using college attainment as a measure of workforce skills, we examine overall trends in higher education to get a sense of where Ohio stands relative to other states. The data reveal that Ohio has made some progress, especially in improving educational attainment in its younger workers. At the same time, Ohio lags in a number of other dimensions, in particular, in its overall level of college attainment and in attracting educated workers into the state.

scholarly journals Getting a Barista Job: Adjudicating the Impact of Human Capital, Social Capital, Age and Gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Ed Collom
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
High Status ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This study concerns the role of human capital, social capital, age, and gender in acquiring a job as an entry-level barista. Employment records were coded and analyzed in order to identify the key factors differentiating this applicant pool. The results from multivariate models produce fewer positive associations between human capital and social capital indicators than the literature suggests. Those with greater educational attainment are more likely to have high-status references on their applications. As seen in previous literature, the social capital of applicants is not very relevant in acquiring this entry-level job. Overall, educational attainment was most salient in increasing the odds of being interviewed and hired. The managers responsible for these decisions appear to favor formal higher education over work experience or references. The findings are discussed vis-à-vis women’s gains in higher education, the growth of the service sector, and the aging of the U.S. population.

scholarly journals Brazilian Legal Education: Curricular Reform that Goes Further without Going Beyond

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 751-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Fragale Filho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Higher Education Expansion ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Education Expansion ◽  
Bar Association ◽  
Education In Brazil ◽  
Expansion Policy

The celebration of 180 years of legal education in Brazil, held in August 2007, was marked by strong criticism of the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (Brazilian Bar Association) and the higher education expansion policy which was undertaken in the late 1990s, establishing more than a thousand law schools in the country. The escolas de enganação (schools of illusion), created mainly during the last decade, would have increased the numbers in the professional college, which currently has around 600,000 lawyers, to approximately two and a half million, if it were not for the professional filter of the Bar Exam. In other words, the proliferation of mass legal courses in Brazil would have enabled the emergence of educational merchants, specializing in the sale of an illusion of social elevation and professional success, which, thanks to the control of entry into the professional corporation, did not happen.

scholarly journals Closing the Gender Gap

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-363
Author(s):  
Dale J. Cohen ◽  
Sheida White ◽  
Steffaney B. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Literacy Gap ◽  
Current State ◽  
Literacy Survey ◽  
National Adult Literacy Survey

This study analyzed the current state of the gender literacy gap and the change in the gender literacy gap between 1992 and 2003, using the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) and the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). The results revealed that although there were significant gender literacy gaps in 1992, virtually all male-paramount literacy gaps (males obtaining higher scores than females) disappeared in the 2003 survey. Much of this gain can be ascribed to more women participating in higher education. Variations in literacy gap changes by race (Black and White) and educational attainment were also investigated.

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