Search results for "post-secondary education"
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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…
Switching to Fully Online Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: The Case of Norwegian Mathematics Lecturers and University Students During the Covid-…
2022
AbstractTowards the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, was detected and quickly spread worldwide. The resulting pandemic led many countries to lockdown and teaching and learning switched to fully online provision. This study explores how Norwegian higher education lecturers and students of mathematics experienced online provision following this switch in March 2020 when the national lockdown was imposed. Data are generated and analysed using an exploratory sequential mixed methods approach that first entailed interviews with ten mathematics lecturers and six undergraduate students as the foundation for developing a survey instrument. The instrument was designed to explore …
Wage penalties for post-secondary education interruption in France
2017
International audience; In France, more and more young people are interrupting their post-secondary education (Mora, 2014) even if re-entering higher education implies all kinds of costs. Yet, little attention has been given so far to the eect of temporary dropout on future wages but it has been studied in other countries. We have attempted to measure the net effect of schooling discontinuities on young wages on the basis of a study of a sample of youth who left post-secondary education in 1998 and returned a few years later. Firstly, from an OLS regression, temporary interruption seems to have a positive effect on wages. However, people who interrupted temporary their education could have …