TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Higher Education Economically Unsustainable?
T2 - An Exploration of Factors that Undermine Sustainability Assessments of Higher Education
AU - Maragakis, Antonios
AU - van den Dobbelsteen, Andy
AU - Maragakis, A.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - As students continue to review the sustainability of higher education institutions, there is a growing need to understand the economic returns of degrees as a function of a sustainable institution. This paper reviews a range of international research to summarize the economic drivers of higher education attainment. Although the cost inputs to higher education are fairly well understood, the economic return of a degree is not. Students misperception of economic returns coupled with a dynamic definition of employability create the framework for unsustainable debt loads for graduates. This paper proposes three metrics that can be used to assess the economic sustainability of students graduating higher education that can be used to supplement the broader definition of sustainability within higher education
AB - As students continue to review the sustainability of higher education institutions, there is a growing need to understand the economic returns of degrees as a function of a sustainable institution. This paper reviews a range of international research to summarize the economic drivers of higher education attainment. Although the cost inputs to higher education are fairly well understood, the economic return of a degree is not. Students misperception of economic returns coupled with a dynamic definition of employability create the framework for unsustainable debt loads for graduates. This paper proposes three metrics that can be used to assess the economic sustainability of students graduating higher education that can be used to supplement the broader definition of sustainability within higher education
KW - sustainable development
KW - higher education
KW - economic return
KW - sustainable education
KW - sustainable assessment
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ac8f93d8-371a-402c-93c3-c2bc5f4f2e89
U2 - 10.1515/dcse-2016-0012
DO - 10.1515/dcse-2016-0012
M3 - Article
SN - 2255-7547
VL - 7
SP - 5
EP - 16
JO - Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education
JF - Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education
IS - 2
ER -