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Direct linkSeyedeh Golafrooz Ramezani; Jani Ursin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
In response to global competition in higher education, university rankings have been developed. These have been interpreted as indicating the regions and countries with the most prestigious and competitive higher education institutions. The rankings are viewed as important in many countries, but their role is ambiguous and contested in the Nordic…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Universities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Christina Nygren-Landgärds; Lena B. Mårtensson; Riitta Pyykkö; John Olav Bjørnestad; Roald von Schoultz – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study aimed to investigate common features and ways of understanding quality culture (QC) within higher education institutions (HEIs) in Nordic countries. While the concept of QC is commonly accepted and often used, its meaning is not always clear. This paper focuses on how Nordic universities frame QC in their internal documentation. The…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Institutional Characteristics
Mette Krogh Christensen; I. M. Pedersen; G. Wichmann-Hansen – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Medical educator portfolios (MEP) are increasingly recognized as a tool for developing and documenting teaching performance in Health Professions Education. However, there is a need to better understand the complex interplay between institutional guidelines and how teachers decode those guidelines and assign value to teaching merits. To gain a…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical School Faculty, Portfolios (Background Materials), Educational Quality
Paola R. S. Eiras – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
Higher education (HE) institutions in Europe are ascribing greater importance to internationalisation as adding value to the entire institution, whereby the most important benefit identified is improved quality of teaching and learning. Notwithstanding, students' perceptions of the extent to which quality of education is associated with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Higher Education, International Education
Alison L. Milner; Christian Ydesen – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
School autonomy with accountability (SAWA) reforms have developed in diverse forms in Northern Europe. Following processes of decentralization to the municipal and school levels, quality assurance and inspection became key to the test-based accountability agendas of Denmark and England respectively. With an abductive approach, we explore the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Accountability
Dan Jiang; Nicolaj Stegeager; Trine Lindvig Thomsen; Xiangyun Du – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This study explores early career academics' (ECAs) professional learning in a Danish university's Professional Learning (PL) program, based on problem- and project-based learning (PBL) principles. Using a complexity theory lens, professional learning is viewed as a dynamic process involving intrapersonal, behavioral, relational, and contextual…
Descriptors: Novices, Faculty, Communities of Practice, Universities
