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Transversal competences: The (mis)match between graduates’ self-assessment and ...

This study undertook a comparative analysis of the assessment of transversal competences using two methods, one based on self-assessment and the other on external evaluation, to verify whether there was a (mis)match between the two. Self-assessment was based on the scores obtained through a self-report survey, and external evaluation was based on the scores obtained through the adaptation of the Multiple Mini-I...

Analysis of social determinants of health on the use of consultations in primar...

Introduction: The social determinants of health (SDH) are the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, which influence their health status. There are several studies on social determinants and their influence on health; however, little has been investigated about these determinants and their action in the search for primary health care. Objectives: This study aims to determine the infl...

High school and exam scores: Does their predictive validity for academic perfor...

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance.This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher education programmes. We find that teacher scores predic...

Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individua...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a crucial role in knowledge society by providing and disseminating knowledge. In this regard, academics have been encouraged to collaborate with society, leading to the emergence of new modes of knowledge production. Several institutional and individual factors have been identified as determinants of the academic engagement. Hence, using data from a survey delivered to ...

Public policies for internationalization: a study for portuguese firms

Internationalization can be considered as a gradual and evolutionary process in which firms progressively increase their involvement in international business. Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that internationalize face a variety of constraints in terms of resources and skills, information, financial capital, the experience of their managers, as well as the constraints inherent to the vulnerabilit...

O IMPACTO DO TURISMO DAS ALDEIAS HISTÓRICAS DE PORTUGAL: UM QUADRO DE ANÁLISE

O IMPACTO DO TURISMO DAS ALDEIAS HISTÓRICAS DE PORTUGAL NO TERRITÓRIO: UMA FRAMEWORK DE ANÁLISE. A rede Aldeias Históricas de Portugal (rAHP) integra 12 aldeias históricas da Região Centro de Portugal com um vasto conjunto de elementos valorativos: história, cultura e património. Estas aldeias, localizadas em territórios de ‘baixa densidade’, registaram os efeitos da desertificação humana, potenciada pela inter...

Considerações finais

Revenue diversification in public higher education: Comparing the University an...

Financial stringency has been an increasing concern to public higher education in Europe, as this sector has become one of the potential areas for cuts in public expenditure, especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008. Public Higher Education Institutions have therefore been under increasing pressure to diversify their funding sources. This study compares the ability of public universities and ...

Policy Changes, Marketization Trends, and Spatial Dispersion in European Higher...

Decades of expansion in European higher education have led to the need to cater to an increasingly diverse student population in a more economical and efficient way. The realities of mass higher education have resulted in major transformations, with visible changes in the modes and instruments of regulation and a greater emphasis on market forces and institutional competition. In this article we reflect about t...

Competition and diversification in public and private higher education.

The development of mass higher education and growing competition between higher education institutions has given increasing visibility to the issue of diversification. This paper analyses the issue of program diversification using a panel of 181 Portuguese higher education institutions over the period 1995-2007 by comparing the behavior of public and private institutions. The institutional diversity found withi...