Higher Education Demand Factors and the Demand for Tourism Education in Slovenia

• Authors: Žiga Čepar , Štefan Bojnec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates the higher education demand in Slovenia, which is investigated in general and in the field of tourism, using regression analysis on selected time-series data. We find a positive and significant association between the higher education demand in general and the demographic and socio-economic circumstances. Demographic trends in general slow down or even decrease the demand for higher education, while socio-economic factors mostly encourage the demand for higher education. However, unfavourable demographic factors are already prevailing over the favourable socio-economic factors, meaning that growth rates of absolute demand for higher education are starting to decline. We analyze the movements of demand for higher education in the field of tourism in recent years and compare them to the movements of the demand for higher education in general and to the movements of the demand for tourism in Slovenia. The demand for tourist services is a factor that encourages demands for higher education in the field of tourism. Finally, we derive some conclusions about higher education demand determinants in Slovenia in general and in the field of tourism, and propose some recommendations for national educational policy.

Keywords

EN

Higher education demand model; demography; tourism; human capital; Slovenia

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 257-266

Dates

published

2010-11-01

online

2010-12-14

Contributors

author

Žiga Čepar

• Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva 5, SI-6104 Koper p.p. 345, Slovenia

author

Štefan Bojnec

• Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva 5, SI-6104 Koper p.p. 345, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-010-0026-x