Student and graduate migration and its effect on the financing of higher education

Higher education researchers are often challenged by the difficulty of empirically validating causal links posited by theories or inferred from correlational observations. The instrumental variable (IV) estimation strategy is one approach that researchers can use to estimate the causal impact of various higher education-related interventions. In this chapter, we discuss how the body of quantitative research specifically devoted to higher education has made use of the IV estimation strategy: we describe how this estimation strategy was used to address causality concerns and provide examples of the types of IVs that were used in various subfields of higher education research. Our discussion is based on a systematic review of a corpus of econometric studies on higher education-related issues that spans the last 30 years. The chapter concludes with a critical discussion of the use of IVs in quantitative higher education research and a discussion of good practices when using an IV estimation strategy.

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“…• Linguistic closeness of home and host countries (Haussen & Übelmesser, 2016) • Expenditure on teaching Institutional revenues from tuition fees…”

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The Use of Instrumental Variables in Higher Education Research

Orosz

Proteasa

Crăciun³

2020

Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

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“…2 In the last years, however, there has been a shift toward a larger share of private financing of higher education. The UK is a case in point, but this pattern can be more broadly observed as a reaction to tighter public budgets or to the increase in student mobility (see, e.g., Haussen and Uebelmesser 2016). In this paper, we go one step further and assume that higher education is fully fee-financed.…”

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Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of student mobility

Demange

Fenge

2020

Int Tax Public Finance

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In the last years, there has been a shift toward more private financing of higher education in many countries. At the same time, student mobility has substantially increased. This paper analyzes in a two-region model the impact of student mobility on region-specific higher education quality with private funding. Individuals decide whether and where to study based on their individual ability and the implemented quality. We show that mobility of students affects educational quality in very different ways depending on the probability of return migration. With full return migration, quality is optimally provided which is in stark contrast to the underprovision result in the case of tax financing. On the contrary, low return migration and thus more competition for students countervail the efficient provision of quality and result in too little differentiated levels or too high symmetric levels. This is in line with the overprovision result with tax financing.

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“…Another tool for coordinating the interests of labour market and educational services is the export of specialists to countries with a high level of professional education, which is controlled by transnational corporations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, etc. (Lumby, 2000;Haussen and Uebelmesser, 2016;The World Bank, 2017;The World Trade Organization, 2017).…”

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Arrangement of cooperation between labour market and regional vocational education system

Terentyeva

Kirillova

et al. 2018

IJEM

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Purpose Modern educational environment in the system of vocational education focuses on the requirements of labour market and those of employers to the content of graduates’ professional competencies. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to develop practical guidance on the arrangement of cooperation between labour market and regional vocational education system. Design/methodology/approach Participative approach allowed considering the cooperation between labour market and regional system of vocational education as the process aimed at creating management tools for formation, use, development of human resources. The research involved 300 teachers, 400 students, 100 employers, who found out the effectiveness criteria for the cooperation between labour market and vocational education system. Findings The findings reveal national models characteristics and universal tools for cooperation between vocational education institutions and enterprise. National models characteristics allow identifying the most advantageous cooperation tools; comparing suggested tools with the experience of others and thereby assessing their relevance and implementation risks. Research limitations/implications The research results allow us to plan strategies for further studies of this problem, which are related to the development of models for cooperation between labour market and vocational education system. Practical implications The identification of universal tools for cooperation between vocational education institutions and enterprise promotes the integration of national vocational education systems into national educational space. The materials of the paper can be useful for university leaders and professors; employees of centres for professional advancement and retraining in selecting and structuring the content of academic and teaching staff’s advanced training. Social implications The revealed criteria contribute to vocational education programmes integration, connection between professional and educational standards, students’ professional identity. Originality/value The effectiveness of the cooperation between labour market and vocational education system will be improved by studying national models and identifying the most advantageous cooperation tools (modular training, voluntary social/ecological year, educational resources integration, state and public management, clustering vocational education institutions and industry companies). This will allow comparing the suggested tools for collaboration between labour market and vocational education system with the experience of others and thereby assess their relevance and implementation risks. Improving the cooperation between labour market and vocational education system will be successful provided that universal tools for cooperation (socio-economic, educational, practical, innovative and technological) are identified, which promotes the integration of national vocational education systems into national educational space. The effectiveness of cooperation between labour market and vocational education system will increase on condition of criterion assessment (clustering, subjectivity, transdisciplinarity), promoting vocational education programmes integration, connection between professional and educational standards, students’ professional identity, students’ engagement in the development and implementation of research and production projects, stepped formation of professional competencies.

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Student and graduate migration and its effect on the financing of higher education

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The Use of Instrumental Variables in Higher Education Research

The Use of Instrumental Variables in Higher Education Research

Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of student mobility

Arrangement of cooperation between labour market and regional vocational education system

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