Private higher education in Italy

Trivellato, Paolo; Triventi, Moris; Traini, Claudia

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-100872-0.00003-3

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“…The results of the predictive models are interesting in themselves, but they lie outside the scope of this article (for the model's parameters, see Tables 5 and 6 in Appendix 1). It suffices to mention here that they are aligned with the results of previous studies based on the same data (Trivellato and Triventi, 2015). 9 Following this procedure, for each student, we obtain a set of objective predictions to be compared with her subjective estimates in order to assess information biases.…”

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Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background

Abbiati¹,

Barone

2016

Rationality and Society

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This study assesses students' expectations about the profitability of the investment in university education. We consider Italy as a test case and provide fresh highquality data on students' expectations concerning the costs, economic returns and chances of success of this investment. These are compared with data on the corresponding actual values. We find that the estimates provided by upper secondary school seniors are highly inaccurate, highly uncertain and systematically biased. Students overestimate the returns to university degrees, while they are over-pessimistic regarding university costs and drop-out risks. These results confirm previous studies on perceived university costs, but they challenge the dominant view that students can realistically forecast graduate earnings. We trace this discrepancy to two methodological shortcomings of several previous studies on expected graduate earnings. Moreover, we find that information barriers are not equally distributed among social groups. High-status students overestimate the economic returns to university more, and they are more optimistic regarding their chances of success in Higher Education, even after allowing for their higher

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confidence: 88%

Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background

Abbiati¹,

Barone

2016

Rationality and Society

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“…Overall, State financial contributions to private universities account for less than 50 percent of each university's income. Overall state revenues for private universities in 2012 amounted to 68.6 million euros (Trivellato et al, 2016).…”

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“…Regarding the age structure, permanent teachers at private universities were younger (mean age 42 years) than at public universities, where the median age was 51 years. Both private and public universities have recently employed a large contingent of teachers, the former at a much higher rate (+75%) than the latter (+25%) (Trivellato et al, 2016).…”

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The Implementation of the Independent Learning Campus Policy: Private Universities Dilemma

Rahmawati

Saputra

2022

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The independent Learning Campus Policy is an effort made to improve the competitiveness of universities and the competitiveness of Indonesian graduates in the international world. The problems faced in Indonesian higher education are the increase in educated unemployment. The contents of the education curriculum are more academic. There is a clustering of universities by region, accreditation, legal entity status for state universities, and organizing bodies for private universities. Several private universities have encountered obstacles to innovation and have high competitiveness. In line with these problems, this research was conducted to identify the dilemma of private universities in implementing MBKM policies. This qualitative study uses a literature study, with secondary data collection and a study of government policy regulations of the independent learning campus policy. In conclusion, the Independent Learning Campus Independent Policy aims to improve the quality and competitiveness of Indonesian universities in the international world. It's just that the policy does not look at the existing conditions and is experienced by most universities, especially private universities throughout Indonesia. The expected target is a burden or difficulty for private universities in implementing the policy. Therefore, it is hoped that the government, in this case, the Ministry of Education and Culture, can apply clear and different standards or criteria for private universities in implementing MBKM policies.

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Market forces in Italian academia today (and yesterday)

Zanardello

2022

Scientometrics

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This paper investigates the operation of the academic market in Italy, mapping current scholars’ location choices. I build a new dataset of current professors, associating each scholar with a composite indicator of their quality. The analysis includes the quality of the university and the features of the city where the institution is located. I estimate the strength of different factors: gravity (distance), agglomeration (scholars are attracted to higher quality universities), selection (better scholars travel longer distances), and sorting (the better the scholar, the more the quality of universities is weighted). I find that all of these factors have an effect, and do not vary according to scholars’ gender. I find a greater expected utility for scholars in choosing private universities over public ones, through a consistent nesting procedure. Comparing these forces to historical trends in Italian academia, the sorting effect delineates a new momentum for the current academic market in Italy.

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Private higher education in Italy

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background

Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background

The Implementation of the Independent Learning Campus Policy: Private Universities Dilemma

Market forces in Italian academia today (and yesterday)

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