Tertiary Education Dropout--General Tendencies for the Last Generations of Students

Autor/inn/en	Voaide?-Cojan, Elena-Alina; Lazar, Theofild-Andrei
Titel	Tertiary Education Dropout--General Tendencies for the Last Generations of Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Sciences, 21 (2020) 1, S.72-82 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1454-7678
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; Foreign Countries; Dropout Rate; Undergraduate Students; Social Sciences; Public Colleges; At Risk Students; Dropout Characteristics; Generational Differences; Departments; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Ausland; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Department; Abteilung; Rumänien
Abstract	Higher education dropout, or abandonment, represents a contemporary worldwide socioeconomic problem that may be one of the main barriers in the future efforts of the younger generations to bring the world economy forward. Why do students leave higher education prematurely? What can be done to help solve this problem? Does our Higher Education System have a coherent support system to prevent dropout? are the core questions on this important issue. The role of education in the young generation's development and the different factors that support or impede this process represent frequently researched topics in the field of applied socio-human sciences, especially during the last decades that are also characterised by important changes in the educational services delivery. The current article constitutes the preliminary work for a future doctoral thesis that aims to investigate the issue of contemporary educational dropout in Romanian universities following data from the last decade. Firstly, some theoretical elements on educational dropout in general will be explored, starting by defining the concept, continuing with the exploration of the main theories and finalising by detailing the main factors that influence university dropout. The last part of the present work follows as a study case the dropout rates of the last three generations of bachelor level students from a social sciences faculty of a state university from Romania. Based on secondary data analysis, the dropout rates are calculated in four steps in order to reveal the dynamics of the process during a bachelor study cycle, being presented the specificities of all four departments of the faculty. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	West University of Timisoara Department of Educational Sciences. Bd. V. Parvan 4, Timisoara, Timis 300223, Romania. Tel: +40-256-592111; e-mail: resjournal@e-uvt.ro; Web site: https://rse.uvt.ro/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01