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Schulze-Cleven, Tobias – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Over the past two decades, public higher education has become widely recognized for its contribution to socio-economic adjustment. This paper probes its evolution in two large and affluent democracies, the United States and Germany, whose higher education systems represent distinct ideal types. The analysis argues that public authorities in both…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Commercialization, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Bengoetxea, Endika; Kallioinen, Outi; Schmidt-Jortzig, Immo; Thorn, Richard – ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), 2011
The implementation of Lifelong Learning (LLL) in European higher education institutions is one of the most important educational and carrier development oriented initiatives of this decade. Albeit an essential path in the continuous improvement of skills, competences and knowledge throughout the life of an individual, this project is also…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Stakeholders, Lifelong Learning
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Schaefers, Christine – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2002
Points out the potential in a neo-institutional perspective as applied to school organization. Sketches the theoretical foundations and current developments of sociological neo-institutionalism. Discusses the German school system and plans for school reform. Shows that from a neo-institutional perspective, school sector offers a variety of fields…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Institutional Research
Schultz-Gerstein, Hans-G. – 1991
This paper recounts the legal, political, and educational changes in former East Germany as the nation has become reunified, and considers the implications of reunification for institutional research at East German universities. After a brief sketch of legal, geographic, and demographic highlights, the decrepit conditions of East German university…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Economic Change
Teichler, Ulrich, Ed.; Wasser, Henry, Ed. – 1992
The nine conference papers presented in this report offer analyses of the German and American university systems and their interactions as well as discussions of significant issues in contemporary higher education generally. Papers were solicited from leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic and assigned to four related categories. Two…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs, Cultural Influences
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1973
This publication is aimed at assisting countries as they respond to the problem of organizing a continuing process of change in the schools. The seven case studies contributed to this volume illustrate ways of balancing organizational processes and the free initiative of individual schools and teachers, within the varying traditions of each…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research