The overaching principles of the center HEYE are:

  • Multidisciplinary perspective
  • Comparative and international research
  • Analysing the intersection of public policies and private behaviours
  • Promoting evidence-based policies

 

The main Research Areas of the center are:

The economics and management of tertiary education systems and institutions

Policies, Economics and Management

Research and Education

Attractiveness and retention

Comparative analysis of remuneration practices

Comparative analysis of different HE systems

Analysis of managerial practices in other HEIs (ITS)

Analysis of teaching  practices and the role of AI

Gender equality in HEIs

Analysis of educational offer in the tourism sector

Towards the development of a regional assessment for research evaluation

Determinants of university drop-out

School-to-tertiary education (University or ITS) transitions

Features and quality of foreign students

Youth skills and employment

Skills

Employability

Society and Impact

Analysis of the determinants of skill mismatch

Labour market returns to skills

Prediction of skill needs

University-labour market transitions

Analysis of  employment and wage trajectotries of both University and ITS students

Intergenerational mobility of HE

Gender equality in the labour market

History of science

University and ecosystem

HE systems as drivers of local development