Alongside the educational expansion and internationalisation of economies, it has become
more important for students' labour market success to spend part of their studies abroad …

In the course of the Bologna process, traditional one-cycle degree programs have been re-
arranged into two successive cycles (bachelor's and master's). In many European countries …

This paper explores the historical relationship between the expansion of the UK HE system
through sectorial diversification, processes of differentiation/convergence and (in) equalities …

University expansion in higher education has been hierarchically differentiated. There is
some concentration of certain social profiles in some degrees of study, so social composition …

This paper presents a large-scale field experiment assessing the impact of an intervention
providing evidence-based information about costs and returns to higher education …

Since the right to education was first advanced at the international level in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the global landscape has changed immensely, with important …

This paper tries to accomplish two tasks. First, it uses a critical review of the concept of
differentiation to shed light on the expansion of the Mozambican higher education system, a …

The German system of post-school education and training is well-known for its high degree
of standardization and stratification. Whereas transitions from this system to the labor market …

Hochschulen haben vielfältige Aufgaben und Folgen für eine Gesellschaft. Sie vermitteln,
wie andere Bildungseinrichtungen auch, Wissen, Kompetenzen und Qualifikationen und …

Family background has been shown to be a strong determinant of educational attainment,
yet relatively little is known about the role that family background plays in PhD attainment or …