This report presents a comparative overview of the main features of national student fee and financial support systems in European higher education in the 2020/21 academic year. It provides insights on whether any fees are charged to students in higher education, which students may have to pay s...
This analysis focuses on six challenges facing tertiary education in the EU: the need to maintain relevance to current and future aspirations, the impact of digital and disruptive technologies, the way it collaborates with business, global and intra-EU collaboration, quality assurance, financing...
This work aims at supporting policy initiatives to ensure the availability in the EU27 of an adequate education offer of advanced digital skills in the domains of artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), cybersecurity (CS) and data science (DS). The study investigates the ...
The European Commission has taken the initiative to recognise Customs-specific Bachelor's and Master’s academic programmes and modules within such programmes that equip their students with the optimal competencies to engage in – or to further advance – their career in Customs. Such academic prog...
This thesis contains four papers. While the first three take a micro labor perspective, the fourth takes an international macro perspective. The common theme in the first three papers is the acquisition and destruction of human capital. The fourth was inspired by a seminar given by Jacques Melit...
The European Commission has taken the initiative to recognise Customs-specific Bachelor and Master’s academic programmes and modules within such programmes, that equip their students with the optimal competencies to engage in – or to further advance – their career in Customs. Such academic progr...
About half of EU students graduate in two main fields of education. In both of them, the lack of one gender is striking. Almost a quarter of students (24 %) graduate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and most of them are men. For example, in information communic...
