Students' Preferences and Needs in Portuguese Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Tavares, Diana; Tavares, Orlanda; Justino, Elsa; Amaral, Alberto
Titel	Students' Preferences and Needs in Portuguese Higher Education
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 43 (2008) 1, S.107-122 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/j.1465-3435.2007.00331.x
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Cultural Background; Needs Assessment; Student Needs; Academic Aspiration; Student Educational Objectives; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Student Interests; Student Surveys; Socioeconomic Influences; Socioeconomic Background; Education Work Relationship; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Bedarfsermittlung; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Studieninteresse; Schülerbefragung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Sozioökonomische Lage
Abstract	In Portugal, there is a diversified higher education system comprising some 160 institutions: universities, polytechnics and isolated schools, public or private, with a total enrollment of some 350,000 students. This article presents the analysis of the results of questionnaires which were completed in 2004 by students entering higher education for the first time so as to understand their perceived needs and aspirations and how they chose their institution/study programme. In the last few years, there has been a decline in the number of candidates to higher education--mainly due to demography--which created strong institutional competition. Therefore it is important to understand the reasons behind students' choices, perceived needs and aspirations and how students assess the capacity of different institutions/programmes to fulfil these. It is also relevant to understand how their choices may be conditioned by factors such as their socio-economic and cultural background, employability prospects, other available information, gender and type of institution and study programme. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10