Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by J DEGREESDurgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic staff in fourteen European countries.
All countries in the study have seen changes regarding the actors and procedures relevant for the regulation of the employment relationships of academic staff. Academic staff are higher education's most important asset and most costly resource. Employment and working...
Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by J DEGREESDurgen Enders at the University...
This Festschrift is dedicated to Ulrich Teichler who is celebrating his sixtieth birth day in 2002. Ulrich Teichler has been a central actor in the development of the field of research on higher education in Germany, Europe and beyond. Not only has he dedicated his professional career to studying a large number of higher education topics through national and international research projects. He was also in the fore front of the efforts to strengthen the structure and profile of higher education re search, for example, through his involvement in the establishment of the Consortium of Higher...
This Festschrift is dedicated to Ulrich Teichler who is celebrating his sixtieth birth day in 2002. Ulrich Teichler has been a central actor in the de...
The book addresses major developments both to the academic enterprise internally and to the external environment which are changing the academic profession. The book brings together an international group of scholars who discuss different aspects of the professoriate and their working conditions in contemporary higher education systems.
The book addresses major developments both to the academic enterprise internally and to the external environment which are changing the academic profe...
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform policies. The book offers a coherent, empirically grounded and theoretically driven presentation of data and core ideas behind a large scale comparative study of 26 universities across eight European countries. It focuses on the strength of university managerial structures, the role of...
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger ma...
