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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 pr...
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The last decade has marked the European higher education with a particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of a «concerted» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: ...
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The Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) was founded in 1988 to stimulate international communication and collaboration of higher education researchers. A need was felt to offset the isolation of the small n...
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This contribution provides an overview of the developments of research undertaken since the mid-1990s on international higher education. The general state of research is characterised by an increase of theoretically and ...
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This paper provides a synthetic overview of the complex dimensions that shape the interrelations between the massification of higher education systems and their structure and composition. Many higher education systems wo...
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Changes of the shape and the size of higher education systems have been a key issue of both higher education policy and higher education research for more than four decades. It is widely assumed that the expansion of stu...
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"Internationalisation", the growing border-crossing activities between national systems of higher education is losing ground to "globalisation", increasing border-crossing activities of blurred national systems which is ...
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Higher education research is closely linked to the debates on higher education policy and practice. It provides the information basis for decisions about the future of higher education. As the themes of the public debate...
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Considers the role institutional types play in the diversification of higher education and addresses recent moves to put more emphasis on levels of programs. Also considers the role individual profiles of higher educatio...
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Contributions to this volume show the current state of self-reflection among researchers in higher education, including the conditions they face and the ways in which they research and communicate their findings. The cha...
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A study compared the costs and funding of higher education in 15 European countries, focusing on the quantitative role public funding plays in covering the overall costs of higher education and the qualitative function o...
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Discussion of internationalization in higher education in Europe finds that although the major forces are still predominantly national, the internationalization process impacts individual institutions through growing pre...
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The transition phase from higher education to employment is examined for diverse European systems of higher education (United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, France, Spain), drawing on data from studies o...
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Considers criticisms of Japanese higher education focusing on weak links between curricula and societal/professional needs. Analyzes social and policy developments in the early 1990s as they relate to system design, gove...
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A discussion of higher education in West Europe looks at the variety of educational philosophies guiding higher education systems and their implications for teaching, research, and administration. The changing role of un...