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Venezuelan Progress Reconsidered
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 60, Heft 354, S. 95-101
ISSN: 1944-785X
Venezuelan progress reconsidered
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 60, Heft 354, S. 95-101,118
ISSN: 0011-3530
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Venezuelan progress reconsidered
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 60, S. 95-101
ISSN: 0011-3530
The Education-Work Transition of Venezuelan University Stude
In: Journal of Interamerican studies and world affairs, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 96-118
ISSN: 2162-2736
University students in Venezuela constitute about ten percent of the corresponding age group (calculated from Universidad Central de Venezuela 1970: 19, Table 5), and leadership of the country's economic and social development is increasingly in the hands of university-trained professionals. University enrollment has quadrupled since 1958, and young professionals who have graduated over the past fifteen years already represent a majority among university graduates in Venezuela. Research on students and elites, however, in Venezuela as elsewhere in Latin America, has concentrated on their divergent political attitudes while paying scant attention to the transformation of university students into members of the elite.This paper reports on an exploratory survey of student and elite attitudes toward higher education and professional employment in Venezuela. Our findings provide some insight on the extent to which employment of high-level manpower is influenced by modern, achievement-oriented criteria, as compared with traditional, ascriptive criteria.
Books in review
In: Studies in comparative international development: SCID, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 85-110
ISSN: 1936-6167