OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education: Finland 2009

OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education: Finland 2009

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-12-21

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9264049045

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Provides 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.


OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society Volume 1 and Volume 2

OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society Volume 1 and Volume 2

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 9264046534

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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.


Higher Education Improving Higher Education in the Slovak Republic

Higher Education Improving Higher Education in the Slovak Republic

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9264699252

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Higher 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.


OECD Economic Surveys: Switzerland 2013

OECD Economic Surveys: Switzerland 2013

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9264183175

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OECD's 2013 survey of the Swiss economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. Its special chapters cover long-term growth and women's role in the economy.


Making Reform Happen Lessons from OECD Countries

Making Reform Happen Lessons from OECD Countries

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9264086293

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This 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.


Technical Universities

Technical Universities

Author: Anders Broström

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 3030505553

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This 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? .--


Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education

Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education

Author: Jung Cheol Shin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9400768303

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This 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.


Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

Author: Berit Karseth

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 3030919595

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This 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.