Material and information about 2023-2024 Education economics lecture of EPOG+ Master 2, given by Hugo Harari-Kermadec. Syllabus

Lecture slides:

• Global trends
• School choice see also the very recent paper on Toulouse experiment (in French)
• Curriculum, ideology and fetishism (feat. Marx and the French regulation school)
• Excellence and polarization. For further details on Principal component analyses, see theses videos for the general idea and implementation on R. My script for an application on the French higher education is available on request.

Previous years’ lectures

• Access to higher education, Human capital and tuition fees (and sequence analyses)

Students’ presentations: fill the framapad no more than 30 min presentation + 15 min discussion

Possible topics: Student allowance, tuition fees, inequalities, marketisation, pedagogy (Freire, hooks), national case studies… some references. Any suggestions are welcome.

• October 5: UN benchmark for acheiving realistics human rights standards (De Souza, Rangel, Dumortier)
• October 12: Digital education (Evite, Herbillon), gendered educational persistence (Pernegger, Pavicevic, Avci), Approaches to Analyzing the Outcomes of International Scholarship Programs for Higher Education (Tashmatova, Lubwa + DF)
• October 19: gender disparities (Janssen, Zaffari, Andrade), Examining the existing opportunity gaps in European Higher Education systems (Monin, Makohin)
• October 26: Inequalities among education in Latin America (Bendezu, Jiménez, Trejo), Inequalities in India (Handa, Rossetti, Stock), bell hooks for EPOG (Fuinhas, Van Noord, Schnars)

Evaluation: each group of student produces a written report, mainly a transcription of your oral presentation. The report is a short (6-10 pages for pairs, 8-14 for groups of 3), structured document, and can include images, tables or graphs used in the presentation, correctly referenced.

Deadline: November 13.

Second grade for students with double ECTS: write a policy brief about education economics (on your own, or with ione or two co-autors):

• US universities coming crisis
• What happens to Erasmus mundus masters after the end of EU funding?
• …

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