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In Mexico, Technical professional education has transformed its graduation profile for almost two decades, going from offering training for work with a terminal character to adopting the baccalaureate, enabling the transition to higher education. The transformations of the academic and curricular model have brought about a change in the student profile that has been little studied up to now. Due to the above, the present work provides relevant evidence from the study of the educational and labor expectations of students about to graduate from Conalep. The main finding identified is that the expectations towards higher education are a generalized desire, regardless of the family context and economic situation. In this sense, family and economic factors exert a major influence that limits the realization of said life project. These two factors condition the decision to opt for work and not follow the vocational effect of careers. Likewise, the study provides evidence of the vocational strength towards work the Training Model holds in the Conalep System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The University of Bío-Bío is a chilean higher education institution, state-owned. There is no a study that measures the economic impact made by the University of Bío-Bío ans its different related persons in Bío-Bío Region. Therefore, using an approximation of the input-output matrix of the Bío-Bío Region for 2012, I estimate the impact that the University and the persons related to it make on the product of Bío-Bío Region. I find that the University contributes to the production of the región both directly and indirectly, totalling $483,049,705,595 for 2020, with wich I make a serie of propossals for the authorities of the University and the authorities of the education of the Region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article seeks to show the feelings and voices of the actors of higher education from within the training process, contrasting them with the provisions and suggestions of international organizations and national agreements. For this, at first, it points out the economic impact that has been unleashed by the pandemic Covid-19, leaving in second place the consequences in education, that is, that the health context has a greater impact on the economy, whereas, in education, only the evident affectations are shown. The fundamental objective is to demonstrate the feeling, the obstacles, the developed competences and the real challenges that the adjustment from face-to-face to virtual teaching has produced from the voice of students, teachers, and managers; in order to be a reference for proposals, programs or plans in higher education in pandemic contexts. The methodology used was content analysis with mixed design, since, when categorizing the data obtained from the questionnaire applied to the actors of higher education, they were systematized in MAXQDA2020 for plotting. Finally, there is a contrast between what is real and what is expressed about higher education by international organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: University dropout is a problem of great interest to different agents of the education system, since its presence in societies is an indicator of inefficiency, which generates considerable costs for states, universities, students and their families. Objective: Examine the factors that influence students' decision to drop out of university in the city of Medellin (Colombia) for the year 2018. Methods and instruments: A quantitative study was carried out, based on a cross-cutting exploratorydescriptive field design, in which 3026 students participated through the application of a selfadministered questionnaire. Results: In addition to economic factors, which are traditionally evaluated in this type of literature, social, family and affective conditions become key incidents when dealing with school dropout as a structural phenomenon. Conclusions: The articulation between directors, administrators, teachers and students is consolidated as a key element in academic retention processes, as a strategy to combat the phenomenon of university dropout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]