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A French and U.S. Comparative Overview of the Critical Concerns of Community College Students and Leaders during the Global Pandemic
2021
International audience
El modelo norteamericano de educación superior de los Community Colleges
2014
El sistema norteamericano de educación superior es mundialmente conocido, liderado por ilustres universidades, como Harvard o Yale. No obstante, existe una extensa red de instituciones de menor duración, denominadas community colleges, que son las grandes desconocidas fuera de sus fronteras, pese a haber formado a millones de norteamericanos desde su creación en 1901. Son instituciones “made in the USA”, donde cualquier ciudadano puede acceder a los programas oficiales de educación superior o puede cursar materias sueltas de educación universitaria, de formación profesional o de formación continua, sin la necesidad de perseguir titulación alguna, en función de sus intereses profesionales o …
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates
2012
In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneur…