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O'Connor, Pat; López, Estrella Montez; O' Hagan, Clare; Wolffram, Andrea; Aye, Manuela; Chizzola, Valentina; Mich, Ornella; Apostolov, Georgi; Topuzova, Irina; Saglamer, Gulsun; Tan, Mine G.; Çaglayan, Hulya – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
Excellence has become a 'hoorah' word which is widely used in higher education institutions to legitimate practices related to the recruitment/progression of staff. It can be seen as reflecting an institutionalised belief that such evaluative processes are unaffected by the social characteristics of those who work in them or their relationships…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Mai, Anh Ngoc – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
As previous research has not addressed the relationship between university autonomy and university rankings within countries where the state control model is used, this study explores universities' strategies to achieve top university rankings in accordance with their autonomous rights and financial as well as political support. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Blümel, Albrecht – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
By analysing institutional changes of administrative leadership at German universities, this paper studies the construction of organizational boundaries as an important aspect of organizational transformation of universities as complete organizations. Building on an analysis of the formal status of administrative leadership at universities derived…
Descriptors: Profiles, Administrator Characteristics, College Administration, Foreign Countries
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Tzanakou, Charikleia – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
The number of dual career couples in academia is growing due to the increasing proportion of women with a doctoral degree and the greater propensity of women to choose another academic as their partner. At the same time, international mobility is required for career advancement in academia, creating challenges for dual career couples where both…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Higher Education, Women Faculty