In most Western European countries, higher education has to an increasing extent been
develo** outside universities, partly through the establishment of new institutions, and …

This article contextualizes the role of technical and vocational higher education in training
the labour force and derives significant implications for science policy in Portugal. A cross …

Although the literature on institutional diversity suggests that quality assurance practices
could affect institutional diversity, there has been little empirical research on this …

Since the late 1990s, substantial changes of financing higher education occurred in
Germany. The total amount of public funding kept pace with inflation and growing student …

The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across
Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected. This book provides an …

During the last third of the twentieth century, college sectors in many countries took on the
role of expanding opportunities for baccalaureate degree attainment in applied fields of …

The concepts of differentiation and profiling are cornerstones in discussions about the
organisation of contemporary higher education systems, following the trends of massification …

In the German higher education (HE) sector, third-party funding plays a prominent role in the
valorization of performance of academics and universities. In the last three decades, policies …

The academic profession in Germany is widely viewed–in comparative perspective-as being
fairly heterogeneous. There seems to be quite a status gap between university professors …

During the last three decades of the twentieth century, it was the policy of many
industrialized countries to shift the responsibility for a substantial portion of baccalaureate …