Xavier Llinàs-Audet

TL;DR: Which generic skills are the key to enable newly graduated engineers, basically computer and telecommunication engineers, to enter the information and communication technology sector, satisfying industry demand in Spain is distinguished.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show to what extent a national policy for higher education state funding to finance state owned and private universities members of the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH) caused economic and territorial impaired resource allocation among institutions.

TL;DR: This article presents a first attempt at defining the professional characteristics-in terms of competence and aptitude-that an IT professional should possess, focusing more on interpersonal skills and abilities than to knowledge and technical expertise.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model based on active learning methods, which is expected to facilitate the acquisition of the professional skills most highly valued in the information and communications technology (ICT) market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the evolution of return rates of tertiary education in Chile using differences-indifferences estimation, and established the impact of these rates on social mobility using crosssectional data obtained from the national socioeconomic characterization survey (Casen) for the periods 2003 to 2009 and 2006 to 2011.