Abstract

AGUILES, Alícia Villar; VIEIRA, Maria Manuel; HERNANDEZ I DOBON, Francesc J.  and  ALMEIDA, Ana Nunes de. Relocation pathways at university, more than dropout: Comparative approach to the Spanish and Portuguese cases. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2012, n.21, pp.139-162. ISSN 1645-7250.

The implementation of the European Higher Education Area is coinciding with the current economic crisis, with important effects for universities. The university drop-out is one of the topics in the current debates about the university system efficiency, the achievement of excellence and the educational policies of accountabilRevista Lusófona de Educação 253 Abstracts ity. In this paper we present results of research that explore this topic with a case study of the University of Valencia (Spain) and the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Through the results on drop-out reasons answered by the students, there seems to be a split between the university drop-out and the academic difficulty. In the second part of this article, we question the concept of dropout in their application to university and we propose a new conceptualization more in line with the reality studied.

Keywords : university; undergraduate students; drop-out; itineraries training.

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