The secondary-preparatory course lasted from five to six years, with a degree of bachelor (bachillerato) usually awarded upon its completion.
Education was an ordinal variable coded in the following dummy variables: (1) associate's degree (degree awarded upon a completion of two years of study at a junior college, college, or university); (2) bachelor's degree; (3) master's degree; (4) professional degree (degree beyond a bachelor's degree, including law, medical, veterinary, and dental degrees); (5) doctorate degree.
These include: programme ownership by ministries of health and local universities; well defined career paths; competence-based training coupled with a focus on field practice during training; awarding degrees upon completion; extensive training and research opportunities made available to graduates; and the social capital acquired during training.
However, it costs $19,500 for each veteran in the program, which includes a $15,000 wage, $3,000 education award upon completion and $1,500 for training.
According to informants in Afghanistan, a diploma, far from being a guarantee of a satisfactory level of knowledge and skills, was rather merely an automatically awarded certificate delivered upon completion of a course.
Kjær Minke's course sees 12 law students and 12 inmates enrolled on the same terms in the same classroom in the prison complex, and every student is awarded five ECTS credits upon completion.
Each course required formal registration, relief of ongoing duties and certificates were awarded for successful completion.
One idea under discussion is to award an MD degree upon completion of a small project at the end of the study programme, while a PhD should only be awarded after the candidate has worked on an additional project that would be comparable to a PhD project in other disciplines in terms of both size and time spent on it.
