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Direct linkNicole Philippczyck; Jan Grundmann; Simon Oertel – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
We analyze the role of institutional founding conditions and institutional legacy for universities' self-representation in terms of diversity. Based on 374 universities located in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland, we can differentiate between a more idealistic understanding (logic of inclusion and equality) and a…
Descriptors: Diversity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment
Download full textSziegat, Hongmei – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2022
Since the implementation of the Excellence Initiative and the Excellence Strategy, German higher education institutions have been restructuring university governance, especially those selected as Universities of Excellence. This study uses a holistic and mission-related integrated governance approach to conduct a qualitative analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Governance
Berghaeuser, Hendrik; Hoelscher, Michael – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Higher education systems are changing due to trends of funding pressures, increasing social demands and growing numbers of students. Even though teaching and research are still considered as the pivotal functions of universities, other activities such as technology transfer, lifelong learning or social engagement have broadened the scope of their…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
Oertel, Simon; Söll, Matthias – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Universities find themselves faced with the conflicting institutional demands of being cathedrals of learning and research as well as introducing managerial and corporate-like structures. Despite many studies in higher education research that focus on how this situation affects the mission of universities, the role of imprinting has not received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Trends, Educational Research
Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
Erhardt, Dominik; von Kotzebue, Alexander – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
Unlike in the US and other western countries, the higher education market in Germany has been sheltered from competition. This changed recently, when a governmental "excellence initiative" began to allocate substantial supplementary funds dependent on higher education institutions' performance, in 2005. This study is aimed at assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Higher Education, Position Papers
Thiel, Corrie; Bellmann, Johannes – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Based on a research project comprising data from an interview study and a survey with teachers and school principals in four German federal states ("Bundesländer"), this paper questions the claim that the side effects of accountability in education are bound to high-stakes contexts, and also provides evidence of side effects occurring in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys, Principals
Kredenets, Nadiya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
The article deals with the problem of forming social partnership policy in vocational training of service sector specialists in Germany and Austria. The foreign and domestic pedagogical experience in establishing an effective system of social partnership in vocational education has been analyzed. The author has considered main factors of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education, Policy Formation
Kosmutzky, Anna – Tertiary Education and Management, 2012
Higher education institutions on their way to quasi-markets have to identify their distinct characteristics and nowadays, most of the German universities have published a mission statement. But since the tasks and mission of German universities are set for them by state regulation, the paper analyses for what mission statements have been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Regulation, Profiles, Colleges
Gramelt, Katja – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
This paper outlines the theoretical foundation of a skill enhancement programme in early childhood settings which follows the ideas of the Anti-Bias approach. A focal point of the concept is to acknowledge the connection between societal, structural and individual biases. It challenges those biases and assists educators in improving their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Bias, Social Bias, Context Effect
Pigozzi, Mary Joy – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2009
At the UNESCO Bonn conference, more than 50 ministers from around the world met privately to discuss education for sustainable development (ESD) and progress made in support of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Their wide-ranging discussion touched on the purposes of education, the nature of education, the importance of the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, International Education, International Cooperation, Conferences (Gatherings)
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: On August 5th, 2006, the third meeting of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) Special Interest Research Group (SIRG) on Parents and Parenting with Intellectual Disabilities was convened in Maastricht, The Netherlands, coinciding with the 2nd International Congress of…
Descriptors: Interest Research, Mental Retardation, Child Rearing, Position Papers
Nielsen, Frede V. – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2006
In this article, the author, a member of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME), shares his views on the future of the "philosophy of music education." According to him, the "philosophy of music education" can be and is, many different things. He argues that the ISPME should develop an open and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Philosophy, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Weinstein, Matthew – Science & Education, 2008
With an eye towards a potential scientific ethics curriculum, this paper examines four contrasting discourses regarding the ethics of using human subjects in science. The first two represent official statements regarding ethics. These include the U.S.'s National Science Education Standards, that identify ethics with a professional code, and the…
Descriptors: War, Ethics, Science Education, Science Instruction
Bassanini, Andrea; Duval, Romain – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003. In the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Macroeconomics, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
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