Economics of Education

Section

Coordinator: Dr. Toni Mora

Another strategic focus of the IRAPP is to create a forum of debate in all areas of economics and educational management. Special emphasis is placed on the “quantitative” aspects of educational management that involve disciplines such as economics. The aim is to generate information to make more informed public education policy decisions. This strategic line of research brings together various professional profiles from the fields of education, economics and management, civil servants and local government representatives who are responsible for education and human resource planning, as well as academic administrators at an individual school level.

Economic of the Education Projects

  • Title: Training needs for the Catalonia of the Future (2030) and necessary changes in the vocational training system to cover them (FP2030)

Completion date:  2021

RESEARCH TEAM: Toni Mora (co-PI), Pilar Pineda Herrero (co-PI), Manuel Fernando Flores Mallo, Carla Quesada Pallarès, Angelina Sánchez Martí, Manuel Fernando Flores Mallo, Carla Quesada Pallarès, Angelina Sánchez Martí, Héctor Fernández Sequi. 

Description: The general objective of the project is to analyse the vocational training needs (FP) that have to be met in the Catalonia of the future, to assess the education necessary to cover them and to identify the most appropriate training model. There are three fields of analysis: To know the needs for future vocational training for the economy in Catalonia; To identify the current status of vocational training to find out what changes the FP system needs to make to meet potential challenges in the future, and finally to analyse the type of vocational training that will help meet future challenges.

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  • Title: Chair in Public Finance: Healthcare and Education Policy Assessment

 

Completion date: 2021

Description: The book Impacte del programa eduCAT en l’adquisició de competències de l’alumnat de secundària de Catalunya was published based on the results of the eduCAT programme,and recently, in September 2018, an article about it was accepted for the International Journal of Education Research .  

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