Open AccessDeclining Quality Affects Choice: The Peruvian Case
Author(s) -
Juan Francisco Castro,
Gustavo Yamada
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2013.70.8715
Subject(s) - regret , quality (philosophy) , economics , higher education , business , rigidity (electromagnetism) , economic growth , labour economics , demographic economics , engineering , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , structural engineering
Few adolescents in the developing world receive sufficient guidance to make crucial life decisions during the transition from secondary to postsecondary education and into the labor market. Consequently, a significant number of graduates regret the decisions they make. The excessive rigidity of most higher education systems prevents lateral shifts between programs or from technical to university education. In addition, in Peru limited information about the range of programs and their labor market outcomes, combined with an increasing number of low-quality providers, contribute to the problem.