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Technical Universities
Past, present and future
Av Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
536 kr
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This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More …
Higher Education in a Globalising World
International Trends and Mutual Observation A Festschrift in Honour of Ulrich Teichler
Inbunden, 2002
1065 kr
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Ulrich Teichler who is celebrating his sixtieth birth day in 2002. Ulrich Teichler has been a central actor in the development of the field of research on higher education in Germany, Europe and beyond. Not only has he dedicated his professional career to studying …
Higher Education in a Globalising World
International Trends and Mutual Observation A Festschrift in Honour of Ulrich Teichler
Häftad, 2002
1065 kr
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Ulrich Teichler who is celebrating his sixtieth birth day in 2002. Ulrich Teichler has been a central actor in the development of the field of research on higher education in Germany, Europe and beyond. Not only has he dedicated his professional career to studying …
Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance
Av Alberto Amaral, Glen Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1594 kr
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Over the last decades higher education has gone through an unprecedented growth period, and as a result the average university or college has now more students and a larger output than ever before. At the same time, the socio-economic and political demands with respect to higher education have …
Higher Education Managerial Revolution?
Av Alberto Amaral, V.L. Meek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1065 kr
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Hedda, founded on 1 January 2001, is a consortium of nine European centres and institutes devoted to research on higher education (see web site: www. uv. uio. nolhedda). Theconsortium·saims are to strengthen the relationship between higher education research and practice, organise and support …
Higher Education Managerial Revolution?
Av Alberto Amaral, V.L. Meek m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1065 kr
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Hedda, founded on 1 January 2001, is a consortium of nine European centres and institutes devoted to research on higher education (see web site: www. uv. uio. nolhedda). Theconsortium·saims are to strengthen the relationship between higher education research and practice, organise and support …
Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America
The Emergence of a New Market under NAFTA?
Av C.W. Barrow, S. Didou-Aupetit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1065 kr
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Since the mid-1970s, economic and educational developments in Canada, Mexico, and the USA have been influenced by two parallel trends: (1) the resurgence of glob al economic competition and (2) the active promotion of knowledge-intensive, serv ice based economies. Both trends have been reinforced …
Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America
The Emergence of a New Market under NAFTA?
Av C.W. Barrow, S. Didou-Aupetit m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1065 kr
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Since the mid-1970s, economic and educational developments in Canada, Mexico, and the USA have been influenced by two parallel trends: (1) the resurgence of glob al economic competition and (2) the active promotion of knowledge-intensive, serv ice based economies. Both trends have been reinforced …
Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area
Av Stefanie Schwarz, Don F. Westerheijden
Inbunden, 2004
2250 kr
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This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two …
Markets in Higher Education
Rhetoric or Reality?
Av Pedro Teixeira, Ben B. Jongbloed m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1065 kr
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This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many …
Professoriate
Profile of a Profession
Inbunden, 2005
1065 kr
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What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so that a professor from an elite US institution …
Reform and Change in Higher Education
Analysing Policy Implementation
Av Åse Gornitzka, Maurice Kogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1594 kr
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Starting from the now classical book by Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), the editors present a critical appreciation of that initial work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in higher education.In the second part, a set of chapters analyses the …
Governing Knowledge
A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education - A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan
Inbunden, 2005
1065 kr
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In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the …
Transformation in Higher Education
Global Pressures and Local Realities
Av N. Cloete, Nico Cloete m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1065 kr
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At the beginning of the 1990s the world was watching with anxiety at South Africa. Would the country be able to get rid of the despicable apartheid regime without bloodshed? Could a civil war be avoided? And would it be possible to develop a democratic society without having to build up a whole new …
Government and Research
Thirty Years of Evolution
Av Maurice Kogan, Mary Henkel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1096 kr
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There has been a flare-up in interest in science policy and a key factor in this is the increased interest in analysing the role that research can play in informing policy making. A pioneering venture in this field was Government and Research: The Rothschild Experiment in a Government Department …
Markets in Higher Education
Rhetoric or Reality?
Av Pedro Teixeira, Ben B. Jongbloed m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1065 kr
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This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many …
Creating the European Area of Higher Education
Voices from the Periphery
Inbunden, 2006
1065 kr
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COM(91) 349 final and the Peripheries of European Higher Education Voldemar Tomusk Open Society Institute – Budapest For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia 1. REDEMPTIVE IRONY OF STRATEGIES AND PROCESSES It is unfortunate to a degree …
Transforming Higher Education
A Comparative Study
Av Maurice Kogan, M. Kogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1065 kr
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Chicago, the Leverhulme Trust (for an emeritus fellowship awarded to Maurice Kogan which enabled a particular part of the English study to be completed) and to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation which provided funds assisting us with the last stage of the project and its dissemination. The …
Cost-sharing and Accessibility in Higher Education: A Fairer Deal?
Av Pedro N. Teixeira, D. Bruce Johnstone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1065 kr
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Higher education finances lie at the crossroads in many Western countries. Hence, worldwide, the most common approach to the need for increasing revenue was to use some form or forms of cost sharing, or the shift of some of the higher educational per-student costs from governments and taxpayers to …
Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Europe
Results from Graduates Surveys from Twelve Countries
Av Harald Schomburg, Ulrich Teichler
Inbunden, 2006
1594 kr
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From autumn 1998 to spring 2000, about 3,000 graduates each from nine countries in the European Union (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), one EFTA country (Norway), one of the Central and Eastern European countries in transition (the Czech …
Disciplines and Doctorates
Av Sharon Parry
Inbunden, 2006
1065 kr
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Advice about how to achieve a PhD usually falls short of relevance because the ways of creating and reporting knowledge differ dramatically from one disciplinary field and specialisation to another. Yet supervisors and doctoral candidates alike know that there are certain protocols or parameters, …
Reform and Change in Higher Education
Analysing Policy Implementation
Av Åse Gornitzka, Maurice Kogan m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1594 kr
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Starting from the now classical book by Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), the editors present a critical appreciation of that initial work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in higher education.In the second part, a set of chapters analyses the …
Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area
Av Stefanie Schwarz, Don F. Westerheijden
Häftad, 2007
2124 kr
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This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two …
Financing Public Universities
The Case of Performance Funding
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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"Financing Public Universities" addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to …
Careers of University Graduates
Views and Experiences in Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional …
University Dynamics and European Integration
Av Peter Maassen, Johan P. Olsen
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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The European University is under stress. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities and include the universities’ organization and financial basis, their …
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Trends in Regulation, Translation and Transformation
Av Don F. Westerheijden, Bjorn Stensaker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the …
Competencies, Higher Education and Career in Japan and the Netherlands
Av Jim Allen, Yuki Inenaga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Jim Allen*, Yuki Inenaga**, Rolf van der Velden* and Keiichi Yoshimoto*** * University of Maastricht ** University of Tsukuba *** Kyushu University 1. 1 Objectives and Background 1. 1. 1 The Focus of This Book It is well known that Japan and the Netherlands have enjoyed …
Professoriate
Profile of a Profession
Häftad, 2007
1065 kr
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What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so that a professor from an elite US institution …
Transformation in Higher Education
Global Pressures and Local Realities
Av Nico Cloete, Peter Maassen m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1065 kr
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At the beginning of the 1990s the world was watching with anxiety at South Africa. Would the country be able to get rid of the despicable apartheid regime without bloodshed? Could a civil war be avoided? And would it be possible to develop a democratic society without having to build up a whole new …
