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Learning and Educational Pathway to Higher Education

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Learning career; Learning trajectory

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Pathways in higher education encompass all the educational events and experiences of an individual – both in formal training and throughout the course of life – that can either support or inhibit access to higher education.

Researchers who study pathways in higher education tend to share a scientific interest in social and educational inequality (before, during, when leaving, and following higher education) and the irreversibility of some school choices that lead to path dependency in some education systems or diversification of training pathways (e.g., bifurcations or temporary interruption of studies) in others, including Anglo-American systems. These issues prompt the consideration of a number of questions: Which demographic groups are overrepresented or underrepresented in higher education? In which programs of study do they enroll? What are the outcomes in terms of academic achievement and employability? Which groups are...

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    France Picard

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    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Picard, F. (2017). Learning and Educational Pathway to Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_307-1

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