This paper presents findings from a joint research project between Curtin University and the LH Martin Institute to evaluate the first Emerging Leadership and Managers Program (eLAMP) institutional cohort in the sector, which was sponsored by Curtin University. The paper presents discussion about leadership development opportunities in higher education that address the complex, global and compe...

Background: Lack and inequitable distribution of human resources for health (HRH) is a major health systems challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. '.2 The Partnership for Innovative Medical Education for Kenya (PRIME-Kenya) is an innovative approach that seeks to strengthen health systems by increasing linkages and collaborations in health care, health education, and health research. This approach wa...

• Significant growth in demand for education, meaning scale of educational institutions. • Increased funding from non-government sources with an increased expectation of relevance and utility. • Changing government and community expectations regarding the nature and role of tertiary education institutions raising expectations of relevance and efficiency. • Increased commercial activity of tradi...

BACKGROUND Completed tertiary education is closely associated with employment and influences income, health and personal well-being. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study is to explore predictors for completed tertiary education among indigenous Sami and non-indigenous young people in relation to mental health indicators and educational factors in sociocultural rural and urban contexts across th...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS If socio-economic disadvantage is associated with more adolescent smoking, but less participation in tertiary education, and smoking and tertiary education are both associated with heavier drinking, these may represent opposing pathways to heavy drinking. This paper examines contextual variation in the magnitude and direction of these associations. DESIGN Comparing cohort ...

Spain has made major investments in tertiaryeducation...  Between 1995 and 2003, Spain has made major investments in tertiary education. Expenditure per student has increased by 43% which is the third highest increase in the OECD countries (OECD average of 6%). As the number of students in tertiary education has also increased by 11% during this period, overall expenditure has increased by 58%...

Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to tertiary education are highly inc...

This paper uses panel data from two new data sets on educational attainment to investigate the effects of education on several development outcomes in African countries. I find that education has a positive and significant impact on these development outcomes. I also find that different levels of education affects development outcomes differently; for some development outcomes, primary and seco...

During the last decades most industrialised countries have experienced a rapid expansion of tertiary education enrolments. The sector of tertiary education became more differentiated through the creation of many different subjects, fields and curricula of study. At the same time, men and women tend to prefer different fields of study which likely also provide different opportunities on the labo...