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Debananda Misra; Bjørn Stensaker – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
A key policy challenge in establishing new universities is the potential risk of lower academic standards and mission drift, which can affect policy effectiveness and outcomes. While regulation and funding tend to be preferred policy instruments for securing control of higher education expansion and achieving policy objectives, this article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Program Implementation
Sherkat, Anoosheh; Chenari, Alireza – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The main research problem in this paper is assessing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in the universities of Tehran province. By considering entrepreneurship intentionality as an indicator of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education, for the first time, the impact of entrepreneurship curriculum, entrepreneurship education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
Perusso, Andre; Wagenaar, Robert – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Globalisation, technological changes and the industry-to-service economy transition has produced dramatic changes in the labour market, thus affecting higher education. It is no longer sufficient to provide students with disciplinary knowledge. Graduates are also expected to be adaptive, innovative and flexible. As these competencies are better…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Internship Programs, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Agasisti, T.; Barbato, G.; Dal Molin, M.; Turri, M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Following the ideas of New Public Management, Quality Assurance (QA) practices have become a relevant concern for public organizations. In the Higher Education sector, QA policies have inspired different reforms, becoming a debated issue for universities' leaders and policy-makers. This article analyzes the implementation of a newly defined…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Public Administration, Committees, Public Colleges
Jungblut, Jens; Vukasovic, Martina; Steinhardt, Isabel – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Apart from teaching, research and service to society, since 2015 higher education systems and institutions in Europe have faced an additional expectation -- to respond to the largely unexpected yet nevertheless growing demand for higher education by refugees. This study explores system and organizational level responses to such environmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Pineda, Pedro; Seidenschnur, Tim – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) has not yet been studied historically and comparatively. Based on our interviews with professors and administrators at 18 universities in three countries, we discuss how SET diffused in all the studied universities and how SET was translated and edited differently according to different sets of statements. SET…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Quality Assurance
Tran, Nguyen Hai Ngan; Amado, Carla Alexandra da Encarnação Filipe; Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This paper provides an analysis of the literature on transnational education to identify the key challenges and success factors for the sustainable operation of transnational higher education (TNE) programmes as perceived by key stakeholders. Probing the stakeholders' perspectives and applying a systematic approach, this study analyses 227…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, International Education, Educational Quality
Teunissen, R. A. G.; Dierx, J. A. J.; Venter, T.; Young, C. T.; Titus, S. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
In defining successful collaborative international projects within the theory of change or logic model, focus is often on 'outcome' and 'impact'. Less empirical information is available regarding the 'input' and 'activities' aspects of this model. To address this knowledge gap and to offer insight into pivotal elements for management, this study…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Consortia
Pastore, Francesco – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition is so slow in Italy, a typical example of the South European regime, where the educational system is rigid and sequential (education before work experience), the labor market has become more flexible through two-tier labor…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Cordiner, Moira; Thomas, Sharon; Green, Wendy – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Organisational change literature is littered with labels for those who instigate, support, resist, or implement change. Absent is research into the perspectives of those who are given these labels. This paper reports findings from a literature search, journal scan and a case study of an Australian university where change agents were labelled…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Labeling (of Persons), Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo; Luu, Diep H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
The adoption of US accreditation by non-US universities is one of the most salient manifestations of the internationalization of quality assurance in higher education. This process has been conceptualized as an exercise of global position taking by which institutions with limited financial and symbolic resources become associated with more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Implementation
Santelices, María Verónica; Horn, Catherine; Catalán, Ximena – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
During the last 10 years, a group of selective universities in Chile has started to implement admissions programs that consider the achievement of students in the context of the educational opportunities they have had, thus reducing reliance on the national college entrance exam. This study explores the program theories in a sample of these…
Descriptors: College Admission, Equal Education, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
Davis, Annemarie; Jansen van Rensburg, Mari; Venter, Peet – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In an attempt to understand the effects of managerialism on university managers in a developing country, we set out to gather rich data on the strategy work of middle managers through a single case study at a South African university. Managerialism has the potential to solve inefficiencies in university systems and processes, as it could help to…
Descriptors: Middle Management, College Administration, Case Studies, Governance
Hunt, Clive – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Among the many external forces that have impacted upon institutions, league tables have been the dynamic to which universities across the world are now responding. Following the appointment of a new vice-chancellor at one post-92 UK university, a modernisation project was introduced aimed at maximising the institutions' research standing. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Strategic Planning
Scott, Karen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Little longitudinal research has examined change in university teachers' elearning beliefs and practices after their initial experience with elearning. This study addresses this gap by focusing on six teachers who developed and implemented an elearning resource, and the changes they made to the resource and its implementation over two years. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change
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