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Davide Donina; Marta Jaworska – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This article develops a country case study on the Polish higher education (HE) system governance regime by using the governance equalizer model to analyse how each reform over the last three decades has altered its formal power structure. In particular, we focus on the most recent HE governance reform (Law 2.0), which has not yet been addressed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Governance
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Gaby Ramia; Emma Mitchell; Alan Morris; Shaun Wilson; Catherine Hastings; Jake Davies – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Housing is a major concern for many international students. This is especially so in those countries where students are mostly dependent on the private market for their accommodation. Australia is one such country, and is one of the world's major destinations for international students. This article analyses governmental failure to address…
Descriptors: Public Policy, College Housing, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Woo, Etienne – Higher Education Policy, 2023
This article analyzes the China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) education policy using a critical policy discourse approach. At the textual level, this paper focuses on policy framing by identifying how diagnostic (problem definition), prognostic (solutions), and motivational (rationales) framings are described in two foundational BRI education…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Krzysztof Czarnecki; Michal Litwinski – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Using data from 27 European countries in the academic years 2005/06, 2010/11, and 2015/16, we investigate the association between student funding policies and student labour during term time -- a phenomenon often seen as detrimental for higher education outcomes. Income substitution effects between entitlements to different types of financial aid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Policy, Financial Policy
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Laura Louise Sarauw – Higher Education Policy, 2024
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is based on a quantitative and accumulative understanding of time, which increasingly frames academic practices and notions of learning in higher education (HE). By example of a recent Danish policy reform, the article explores the connections between the ECTS, new institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Credits, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Po Yang; Yunbo Liu – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Over the past 40 years, global tertiary expansion has been driven in part by the rise of the non-university sector. The growth of this sector, which includes vocational colleges, also contributes to increasingly diverse national higher education systems. Prior research has focused on inter-state variation in national systems, while very few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Asian History
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Han, Shuangmiao – Higher Education Policy, 2023
Policy experimentation (PE) has been regarded as an integral element in defining China's reform capability. However, few studies have investigated the processes of PE in China's education reforms, as well as the policy conditions required for PE's successful initiation, implementation, and inclusion into the policy process. Through an empirically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
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Lackner, Elisabeth Josefine – Higher Education Policy, 2022
This study describes a key feature of modern, democratic policy making, namely the relation between stakeholder input and policy output. In the Nordic countries, there are long traditions for and democratic values attached to the dialogue between the government and civil society when developing policies for the educational sector. The case…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Democratic Values
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Li, Zheng; Zheng, Jie; Xiong, Jie – Higher Education Policy, 2023
This paper investigated project-based governance (PBG) in China's higher vocational education (HVE) with a main research question asking how PBG works in China's HVE. Using case study as a research strategy, the paper examines the application and effect of the PBG model on Chinese HVE within the analytical framework of PBG-based agency theory.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Vocational Education
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Srikanth Ramani; Deidre Henne; Donna Kotsopoulos; Brandon Dickson; Chad Dickson – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This research explores responsible investment practices at Canadian and international universities. We analyze universities' "Statement of Investment Policy and Procedures" and "Responsible Investing Policies" to understand how responsible investing is included and how this varies by region. Our results show that most…
Descriptors: Investment, Foreign Countries, Universities, Financial Policy
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Kun Yan; Han Wu; Kaiming Bu; Lingli Wu – Higher Education Policy, 2024
To date, no empirical study has focused on understanding the evolution process of China's college admission policies and clarifying its hidden evolution logic. Based on the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), this study determines different advocacy coalitions and their belief systems during the evolution process of independent enrollment policy,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Leon, Raul A.; Vega, Blanca E. – Higher Education Policy, 2021
Higher education reform efforts in Ecuador during the last decade have been described as a process that has radically shaped local institutions. With the government at the forefront of mandating this reform, we examined the perspectives of stakeholders in the country who have been charged with enacting policies seeking to improve higher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Shutao Wang; Lujing Tang; Ziying Chen – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This study used the provincial panel data on policy adoption rate of university-affiliated think tanks in China from 2005 to 2017 and built a fixed effects model to explore the impact of the policy adoption rate of university-affiliated think tanks on China's economic growth. The results indicated that China's university-affiliated think tanks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Talent Development, Influences
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Ian Baker – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Beginning in the mid-1980s, European governments have increasingly implemented performance-based funding systems for higher education. While a focus on the transnational pressures that contributed to the widespread adoption of performance-based funding in Europe accounts for the impetus for performance-based funding policies, it fails to address…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Smolentseva, Anna; Platonova, Daria – Higher Education Policy, 2023
Soviet higher education had a distinctive institutional landscape. It combined two institutional types in a uniform model that embedded higher education in the national economy. This paper focuses on the post-Soviet system-level changes in the institutional landscape in all 15 countries of the former USSR. It shows that over last three decades the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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