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Understanding Higher Education Enrolment Through Michel Foucault’s Biopolitics
Higher education enrolment is and has historically been a demographic-political problem around the world over the last four decades. This can be...
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High School Enrolment Choices—Understanding the STEM Gender Gap
Students’ high school decisions will always impact efforts to achieve gender parity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at...
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The interrupted journey: factors and processes related to withdrawal, re-enrolment and dropout from doctoral education
Withdrawal from doctoral education has been recognized as a problem with negative consequences for different actors, leading researchers worldwide to...
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Pushing-in single-sex schools for enrichment of both enrolment and gender equity in STEM careers
BackgroundQuality education has been emphasized by the world Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 17 goals the world set to achieve by 2030....
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Limits to growth? Key enrolment trends for UK transnational higher education, 2002–2021
This article examines enrolment trends in UK transnational higher education since the early 2000s. During the first phase, which lasted until the...
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Pupil Selection and Enrolment in Comprehensive Schools in Urban Finland
There is a pervasive myth that education policy for comprehensive schooling in Finland is non-selective, meaning that all children attend similar...
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Overrepresentation of Indigenous students in school suspension, exclusion, and enrolment cancellation in Queensland: is there a case for systemic inclusive school reform?
Well-established evidence of the ill-effects of exclusionary school discipline, its disproportionate use on students of colour, and association with...
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The Significance of Learning Environment and Decision-Making for Enrolment in and Completion of VET: A Danish Case
Two challenges characterise and weigh heavily on Danish vocational education and training (VET). Too few young people enrol in VET directly after...
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Counting national school enrolment shares in Australia: the political arithmetic of declining public school enrolment
In 2017, it was excitedly pronounced across major newspapers in Australia that public schools’ share of student enrolment had increased, marking a...
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School-based professional development training of teachers linked to increase in enrolment: evidence from Pakistan
Of the estimated 0.6 million teachers employed at government schools in Pakistan, 43 percent have not received any professional development training....
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When massified higher education meets shrinking birth rates: the case of South Korea
Most discussions of higher education research in the last four decades have focused on expanding higher education, including increasing access,...
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Private Higher Education in India: Expansion, Costs, and Financing
Indian higher education has witnessed a massive expansion over the past two decades. The phenomenal expansion of Indian higher education can be...
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Higher Education in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lao PDR’s higher education sector is develo** but needs more capacity, quality, and effectiveness. Undergraduate program enrolment has declined...
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Secondary Ethnic Effects in the Transition to Higher Education in Germany and Their Explanations
Given their lower socioeconomic background and achievement, immigrants and their descendants have been shown to make more ambitious decisions...
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When Student Background Overrides Score-Based Placement: Tension Between Stakeholders’ Conceptualizations of Fairness
Language placement tests should be connected to the language curricula into which they place learners, reflective of local needs and student...
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Tracking the Progress of a Child from Enrolment to Completion of Secondary Education in India
Using both rounds of India Human Development Survey (2004-05 and 2011-2012) data, this study has tracked the progress of students from enrolment to...
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Transitional pathways through middle school for First Nations students in the Northern Territory of Australia
The middle-school years (Year 7 to Year 9) is a particular challenge for socially disadvantaged populations, with high proportions of children either...
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Social Representations of TVET and Non-Academic Work in Mexico from the Perspective of Employers and Youth in the Mexican Tourism Industries
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes are seen as having great potential. Nevertheless, the enrolment rate in such...
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Cambodian Women and Girls: Challenges to and Opportunities for Their Participation in Higher Education
Achieving enrolment equality between boys and girls in basic education has been a distinctive achievement of the Cambodian education system. At the...