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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Garcia-Aracil, Adela; Palomares-Montero, Davinia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
Higher Education Institutions are undergoing important changes involving the development of new roles and missions, with implications for their structure. Governments and institutions are implementing strategies to ensure the proper performance of universities and several studies have investigated evaluation of universities through the development…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Institutional Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Indicators
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Garcia-Aracil, Adela – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
In this paper we investigate satisfaction rates among young European higher education graduates with their tertiary level study. Ordered choice models are used to parse out those factors that influence study satisfaction, such as environmental factors, field of study, usefulness of study and other individual-specific characteristics. Results show…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Course Content, Educational Attitudes
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Garcia-Aracil, Adela; Van der Velden, Rolf – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
Labor market rewards based on competencies are analyzed using a sample of young European higher education (HE) graduates. Estimates of monetary rewards are obtained from conventional earnings regressions, while estimates total rewards are based on job satisfaction and derived through ordered probit regressions. Results for income show that jobs…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates, Income
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Mora, Jose-Gines; Garcia-Aracil, Adela; Vila, Luis E. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
The effects of diverse education-related variables on job satisfaction scores are analysed using a sample of European higher education graduates at early stages of their working life. Ordered choice models for job satisfaction are estimated including as explanatory diverse educational variables such as field of study, graduates' evaluation of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Educational Experience, Job Satisfaction
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Garcia-Aracil, Adela; Gabaldon, Daniel; Mora, Jose-Gines; Vila, Luis E. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper analyses the relationships among life goals, job prospects and fields of study for a sample of young European higher education graduates. The results show that there is a characteristic pattern for each field of study with regard to the variables used. Graduates in a given field have similar life goals and job prospects, as well as a…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, College Graduates, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
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Garcia-Aracil, Adela – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper examines the composition of the gender earnings gap among young European higher education graduates, with a particular focus on competencies controlling for individual background and job characteristics. The results show that much of the female worker's earnings advantage can be explained by job characteristics. With respect to the…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates, Gender Differences, Skills