Higher education is increasingly positioned as a private good for prospective students in England, through which they can hope to gain an economic return on their 'investment'. This paper offers new ways of thinking about the purpose of university study and the benchmarks of graduate success. Using Margaret Archer's understanding of the concept of…

This short description of vocational education and training (VET) in Poland provides an insight into its distinctive features and highlights developments in and challenges for the system. In Poland VET is offered at upper secondary, post-secondary and higher vocational levels for young people and adults, with different types of work-based learning…

Interest in learner engagement in foreign language education has increased, yet research on its development across various timescales remains limited. Using a classroom-based longitudinal research design, this study sought to investigate the dynamism of classroom engagement over a 15-week semester and identify, from students' perspective, the…

Postsecondary education confers many benefits to individuals. Relative to those without any postsecondary education, they earn more income, are less likely to experience depression and have higher self-esteem, and live longer. Access to these benefits, however, varies considerably across gender, race and ethnicity, and family income despite the…

This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) regarding the use of smartphones in Physics Teaching. After the selection of Brazilian journals on Physics Teaching and Science Teaching with high CAPES Qualis in the four-year period 2017-2020, the initial search yielded 278 articles, which were subsequently filtered down to 51 open-access…

Flipped classroom is considered an effective teaching approach, and numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been conducted to highlight its trends. However, there are very few review articles focusing on the perspectives of its pre-class and in-class activities in English language teaching. Thus, this paper presents a systematic review…

This document analyzes the knowledge of teachers who use digital technologies for mathematics instruction through an instrument called Technological Pedagogical Content Specialized Knowledge (TPCSK) combining open-ended questions and a self-perception scale. The results are based on a case study involving ten teachers from different educational…

The Universities Accord 2024 in Australia and the Augar Review 2019 in England both argue for a more cohesive tertiary education system and consider promoting mid-level qualifications. This paper compares the roles of mid-level qualifications in the two countries' current systems. We review government reports and analyse national statistics, and…

A key question raised by the Australian Universities Accord is how the tertiary education system can enhance participation rates and align vocational education and training (VET) with the evolving needs of the labour market. However, the alignment between VET in Schools enrolments and local labour market needs remains unclear. This study…

Student attrition represents one of the greatest challenges facing U.S. postsecondary institutions. Approximately 40 percent of students seeking a bachelor's degree do not graduate within 6 years; among nontraditional students, who make up half of the undergraduate population, dropout rates are even higher. In this study, we developed a machine…

This study examined the connection between adolescent employment and future participation in postsecondary education in a sample of U.S. Latino high school juniors/seniors (n = 2164) from the 1992-2002 Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Employed and non-employed Latino adolescents did not markedly differ in academic performance, ability,…

Challenges exist with the discourse in education around terms such as 'best practice', 'excellence', and 'impact', which raises questions around who decides what 'excellent' teaching looks like. To better understand the different facets of teaching excellence, this research project investigates the stories of twelve national Tertiary Teaching…

In this article, Bourdieu's theory of capital is used to examine differences in the professional attitudes of staff who work in the English Further Education (FE) sector. Little empirical work has been conducted in this field despite evidence that positionality can influence how professionalism is experienced. Bourdieu distinguishes three forms of…

To sustain the higher education industry and address U.S. economic downturns, researchers must prioritize research on undergraduates aged 24 or above -- contemporary students. This empirical study finds contemporary students have lower chances of attaining degrees--"any degrees"--than their younger peers. Using nationally representative…

Representations of higher education in fiction-based sources contribute to forming public perceptions of academia, and so are a form of public pedagogy. Within popular culture representations, understandings of academics are constructed using particular tropes which build shared meanings of the profession. Conferences are one of these tropes and…