Strategies of action: improving employability

Merrill, Barbara

doi:10.12795/revistafuentes.2015.i16.01

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“…That 13% represents a total of 169,000 students who have dropped out of the system throughout Spain of which 31,850 correspond to universities in Andalusia (Ministry of Universities of the Government of Spain, 2022). If we estimate that the state was investing in 2021 about 7,000 euros per year per university position, the cost of dropout (as calculated by Colás Bravo, 2015) is amounting to a total of 1,183 million euros per year in Spain, of which 222 million euros correspond to Andalusia. These figures are lower than those estimated for the United States (Rumberger, 2020) and other regions of the world.…”

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Dropout in Andalusian universities: prediction and prevention

Fernández Cruz,

Álvarez Ferrándiz,

Fernández García-Valdecasas

et al. 2024

Front. Educ.

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Problem and objectiveUniversity dropout is a major problem that affects more than 31,000 students each year in Andalusian universities, with serious personal and social consequences and an economic cost of more than 222 million euros for the region’s public administration. As concluded from the review of explanatory models we reviewed, dropout has a multicausal origin. The purpose of our work is to test the efficacy of the use of a screening for the early detection of the risk of academic dropout in Higher Education in Andalusian universities.ProcedureWe applied a screening instrument adapted for incoming students in public universities in Andalusia. The survey was applied at the beginning of the second semester. In this article we present data from a sample composed of 976 subjects from the universities of Granada UGR, Jaén UJA and Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla UPO.ResultsWith the data obtained we have established the dropout risk group, which includes those students who do not reach an average score of 3.00 in the total screening. There are 34 students representing 3.48% of the sample. Of these 34 students, 26 are women and 8 are men; 20 belong to the UGR, 8 to the UJA and 5 to the UPO. The detection of the risk group will allow the universities to apply preventive measures in a personalized and adjusted way to avoid possible dropout.

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