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Einheit von Forschung und Lehre: Implications for State Funding of Universities
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Frolich, Nicoline; Coate, Kelly; Mignot-Gerard, Stephanie; Knill, Christoph – Higher Education Policy, 2010
The Humboldtian educational ideal is based on the idea of the unity of teaching and research in universities ("Einheit von Forschung und Lehre"). The role of the state, according to Humboldt, was to fund universities in such a way that their autonomy was maintained. Much has changed in the funding mechanisms of higher education systems…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Bologna--Realising Old or New Ideals of Quality?
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Serrano-Velarde, Kathia; Stensaker, Bjorn – Higher Education Policy, 2010
This article discusses the meanings of quality in the Humboldtian university ideal and in the Bologna process, especially related to issues of institutional autonomy, academic freedom and the integration of teaching and research. The article gives an overview of current practices associated with quality and quality assurance in Germany and Norway.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy
College Rankings Catch on Overseas
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Bollag, Burton – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
As tuition is being introduced--or raised--at publicly supported university systems around the world, more people are embracing the idea that rankings can help consumers get the best value. Jamie P. Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a Washington-based research group, says that in the last few years, national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research, Universities, College Faculty
The Optimum and Maximum Size of the University.
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Standing Conference of Rectors and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1964
This document, which deals in whole with the optimum and maximum size of the university, is broken down into 4 major chapters, each of which was written by an expert in the particular field. The first discusses the unity of the university and studies: (1) the unity of the university, including in particular the relationship between the university…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Educational Responsibility, Higher Education
Minutes of the III General Assembly of the Standing Conference of Rectors and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities, September 2-9, 1964.
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Standing Conference of Rectors and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1966
This document presents the minutes of preparatory meetings to and the proceedings of a conference of rectors and vice-chancellors of the European universities held from September 2 to September 8, 1964. Some of the major addresses at the conference dealt with the topics of: (1) the university in the modern world; (2) the university and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cooperative Planning, Educational Opportunities, Educational Planning
Childhood in a Changing Society: Power, Autonomy, Early Years Education. Abstracts (Keynote Lectures, Symposia, Posters) European Conference on the Quality of Early Childhood Education (7th, Munich, Germany, September 3-6, 1997).
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European Early Childhood Education Research Association. – 1997
This compendium contains the abstracts of the keynote lectures, symposia, and posters for the 7th European Conference on the Quality of Early Childhood Education. The topic of the conference was Childhood in a Changing Society--Power, Autonomy, and Early Years Education. The first section of the collection consists of abstracts of keynote…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Behavior, Child Development, Children