Higher Education Research and Policy – serie
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Knowledge Production in European Universities
States, Markets, and Academic Entrepreneurialism
Av Marek Kwiek
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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The book studies transformations of European universities in the context of globalization and Europeanization, the questioning of the foundations of the «Golden Age» of the Keynesian welfare state, public sector reforms, demographic changes, the massification and diversification of higher …
Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans
The Interplay between European Ideas, Domestic Policies, and Institutional Practices
Av Jelena Branković, Maja Kovačević m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
713 kr
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Higher education in the Western Balkans is currently undergoing substantial changes as a result of European reform ideas, new domestic policy initiatives as well as universities and colleges in the region trying to adapt to new expectations and challenges. The book analyzes the changes in both …
Higher Education Learning Outcomes Assessment
International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2014
803 kr
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This book provides higher education teachers, leaders and policymakers with insights from research on assessing students’ learning outcomes. The book is founded in research, shaped by policy, and designed to be of enduring relevance to practice. Framed by a cycle of continuous quality improvement, …
Building a Research-Rich Teaching Profession
The Promises and Challenges of Doctoral Studies as a Form of Teacher Professional Development
Av Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak, Marek Kwiek
Inbunden, 2021
601 kr
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This book offers a research-based insight into a unique - and growing - group of teachers: those who have decided to undertake doctoral studies as a part of their ongoing professional development. Drawing on interviews with 30 Polish teachers with PhDs, this book illustrates how the doctorate is an …
Pathways to Success in Higher Education
Rethinking the Social Capital Theory in the Light of Institutional Diversity
Inbunden, 2015
820 kr
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Students are influenced by their peer networks instead of the invisible hand of meritocracy. This statement by David Riesman is still true today. The volume analyses how students make use of social connections and the expanding opportunities offered by contemporary tertiary education. The results …
Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education
Convergence and Diversity, Centres and Peripheries
Av Pavel Zgaga, Ulrich Teichler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
856 kr
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The last decade has marked European higher education with particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of «connected» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: about the nature and quality of higher education, about the real impact of recent …
Higher Education Privatization in Kuwait
A Study in the Processes of Policy Production
Av Ahoud Al-Asfour, Marek Kwiek
Inbunden, 2019
651 kr
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Over the past four decades, higher education privatization became a common policy choice for higher education reforms in most emerging systems due to lack in public resources. In Kuwait however, similar financial pressures did not exist. Influenced by the "glonacal agency heuristic," the author …
Reflective Practice for Elevating Higher Education: Voices from Oman
Av Peter Mitchell, Saleh Al-Busaidi
Inbunden, 2025
652 kr
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This edited volume explores reflective practice in higher education from multiple perspectives in a common context: Oman's national higher education system. The authors of the chapters address how higher education institutions can create opportunities for academic staff to engage in reflective …
Well-Being of Academic Staff in Rapidly Changing Higher Education
A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Av Gabriella Pusztai, Klára Kovács-Nagy
Inbunden, 2026
638 kr
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Changes in higher education in recent decades–such as expansion, the Bologna reform, internationalization, competition for students, managerialism, and the emergence of a service-oriented approach–have fundamentally transformed the work of academics. The aim of our research, which forms the basis …
National Higher Education Reforms in a European Context
Comparative Reflections on Poland and Norway
Inbunden, 2012
490 kr
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This book addresses the following research questions: What are the main transformations in European higher education? How do these transformations affect the national higher education systems of Norway and Poland? How do European-level higher education policy processes affect national higher …
Higher Education Reform: Looking Back – Looking Forward
Av Andra Wolter, Ulrich Teichler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
596 kr
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The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume …
Higher Education Reform: Looking Back – Looking Forward
Second Revised Edition
Av Pavel Zgaga, Ulrich Teichler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
704 kr
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The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume …
