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Švaikauskiene, Simona; Mikulskiene, Birute – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore internal management, advocacy and partnerships of interest groups with the aim of representing their interests in public policy formation with a view to developing a stakeholder typology. This qualitative study involves eight in-depth, semi-structured interviews with representatives from stakeholder…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Classification, Stakeholders
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Leisyte, Liudvika; Zelvys, Rimantas; Zenkiene, Lina – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The paper explores the implementation of selected Bologna action lines in Lithuanian higher education institutions (HEIs). The study is carried out from an organizational perspective on national re-contextualization, drawing upon sociological institutionalism. The Bologna process is likely to be normatively accepted by institutions in the context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Student Mobility
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Leonavicius, Vylius; Ozolinciute, Egle – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
The paper seeks to understand the trajectories of students who defer entry to university. The study was conducted in Lithuania, a former Soviet Union republic. The phenomenon of a "gap year" is usually associated with young people, who decide not to enter higher education schools immediately after receiving secondary education, instead…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Status, Advantaged, Semi Structured Interviews
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Urbanovic, Jolanta; Wilkins, Stephen; Huisman, Jeroen – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The spread of the neo-liberal ideology internationally has encouraged increased marketisation of higher education systems right around the world. With marketisation promoting competition, efficiency and revenue generation, many countries have begun to recruit more foreign students. Higher education has moved towards becoming a profitable commodity…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Marketing, Competition, Foreign Countries
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Kasperiuniene, Judita; Zydziunaite, Vilma; Eriksson, Malin – Qualitative Research in Education, 2017
This qualitative study explored the self-regulated learning (SRL) of teachers and their students in virtual social spaces. The processes of SRL were analyzed from 24 semi-structured individual interviews with professors, instructors and their students from five Lithuanian universities. A core category stroking the net whale showed the process of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Grounded Theory, Independent Study, Electronic Learning
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Pileicikiene, Nora – Quality of Higher Education, 2011
The cooperation of various stakeholders' groups is a prerequisite to develop and realise high-quality study programmes, i.e. during studies to develop skills that are relevant to the labour market and social life. In order to achieve effective stakeholders' cooperation, it is necessary to identify stakeholder's groups relevant to a study programme…
Descriptors: Expertise, Labor Market, Quality Control, Foreign Countries