Post-Secondary Education in Northern Canada

Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?

Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates? Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive abil...

Internet Based Distance Post-secondary Education in Slovenia

The presence and the expansion of Internet based distance education (online DE) are one of the characteristics of the information society by which we can estimate the level of its development. We have witnessed many changes in Slovenia in the last decade and therefore we were interested in acceptability (and readiness) of Slovene students for Internet based DE, especially because the Internet h...

New dimensions--nursing education in the post-secondary education system in the Republic of South Africa.

In April 1982 is aangekondig dat in beginsel goedgekeur is dat verpleegkolleges met universiteite kan affilieer. Hierdie aankondiging was die kulminasie van ’n stryd wat die verpleegberoep in Suid-Afrika byna ’n eeu lank gevoer het om verpleegonderwys in die hoofstroom van die land se hoer onderwysstelsel geplaas te kry. Dit is een van die belangrikste onlangse ontwikkelings in verpleging en di...

A new model for post-secondary education, the Optimized University

I. Introductory caveats. This article is discussing the situation at North American universities in general, and not specifically those in BC. Some details may be slightly different in BC from the rest of the continent, as well as varying between different institutions of higher education in BC. However indications are that most of the general features are largely the same throughout North Amer...

Career Guidance and Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training