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...

The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might further worsen the poor schooling quality often found in these countries. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to sizeable increases in the pupil-teacher ratio and a reduction in observable teacher quality, but rule out a substantia...

A powerful case can be made for the expansion of secondary education in developing countries on the grounds of growth, poverty reduction, equity, and social cohesion. The argument is particularly germane for countries that have achieved high levels of primary education coverage but still have low enrollments at the secondary level. This chapter examines the evidence for the growing importance o...

China’s college admission rose from one million in 1998 to seven million in 2009, and associated with the expansion is the declining college premium for young workers. However, the college premium for senior workers increased in the same period. We show that the rising demand for skilled workers is the driving force. To explain this, we build a general equilibrium theory that considers two dime...

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be politically sustainable. Despite a vo...

With the rapid expansion of graduate students, higher demand of using information technology in graduate education arises. Based on the analysis of the problem existing in the traditional graduate educational programs, we propose the microblogging virtual learning team for graduate education. We also explore the advantages and characteristics of microblogging virtual learning in project learning.

This book on ‘access and expansion: challenges for higher education improvement in developing countries’ is based on the experiences and reflections of experts from the North and the South in a variety of capacity development projects. Most of these projects have been awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC) to the Centre for International Cooperation...