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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-12-21
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9264049045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an overview of Finland's tertiary education system including an annount of recent trends and developments, an analysis of the strengths and challenges, and recommendations for future policy development.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-03-05
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9264039325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a ...
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9264699252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigher education helps learners acquire the knowledge and skills they need to lead productive working lives, and it sparks the innovation that fosters economic growth and social progress. However, creating higher education systems that operate at a high level of research and teaching quality, with responsiveness to social and labour market demands, requires effective public policies and institutional practices.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-05-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9264086293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future.
Author: Field Simon
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9264173668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines vocational education and training in Denmark, looking at what kinds of training is needed, how it should be funded, how they should be linked to university programmes and how employers and unions can be engaged.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-08-10
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 926408746X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives.
Author: Anders Broström
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 3030505553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of higher education institutions. Introduced in the age of industrialization, polytechnical schools rose to prominence in many national settings during the second half of the 19th century. Over time, new technologies have been developed and incorporated into the repertoire, and waves of academisation have swept over the former polytechnics, transforming them into technical universities. Their traditions and brands, however, prevail. Several technical universities are included among the most prestigious academic institutions of their nations and the training of engineers and engineering research still enjoys a high level of prestige and national priority, e.g. in the context of innovation and industrial policy. But the world keeps changing, and the higher education sector with it. Will technical universities have an equally attractive position within university systems in the decades to come? .--
Author: Jung Cheol Shin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9400768303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses how teaching and research have been weighted differently in academia in 18 countries and one region, Hong Kong SAR, based on an international comparative study entitled the Changing Academic Profession (CAP). It addresses these issues using empirical evidence, the CAP data. Specifically, the focus is on how teaching and research are defined in each higher education system, how teaching and research are preferred and conducted by academics, and how academics are rewarded by their institution. Since the establishment of Berlin University in 1810, there has been controversy on teaching and research as the primary functions of universities and academics. The controversy increased when Johns Hopkins University was established in 1876 with only graduate programs, and more recently with the release of the Carnegie Foundation report Scholarship Reconsidered by Ernest L. Boyer in 1990. Since the publication of Scholarship Reconsidered in 1990, higher education scholars and policymakers began to pay attention to the details of teaching and research activities, a kind of ‘black box’ because only individual academics know how they conduct teaching and research in their own contexts.
Author: Paulo Santiago
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2008-09-22
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTertiary-education policy is increasingly important on national agendas. The widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made high-quality tertiary education more important than ever. The imperative for countries is to raise higher-level employment skills, to sustain a globally competitive research base and to improve knowledge dissemination to the benefit of society. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society provides a thorough international investigation of tertiary education policy across its many facets – governance, funding, quality assurance, equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labour market and internationalisation. The report presents: · an analysis of the trends and developments in tertiary education; · a synthesis of research-based evidence on the impact of tertiary-education policies; · innovative and successful policies and practices that countries have implemented; and · tertiary-education policy options. The report draws on the results of a major OECD review of tertiary education policy – the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education -- conducted over the 2004-08 period in collaboration with 24 countries around the world. FURTHER READING A companion series - OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education - offers an in-depth analysis of tertiary education policies in each of the 14 countries which opted for a country review: China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and Spain. www.oecd.org/edu/tertiary/review.
Author: Berit Karseth
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 3030919595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for them, as evidence and expertise? The chapters draw methodologically on bibliometric data, network analysis, document analysis and expert interviews. They show compellingly how governments use “evidence” strategically and selectively for agenda setting and policy decisions. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of education policy, specifically within the Nordic region, and international and comparative education.
