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Academic Executive Programs in Public Administration and Management: Some Variety across Europe
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Reichard, Christoph – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Universities and other higher education institutions in Europe offer a vast and increasing number of academic degree programs in the broad field of Public Administration. A subset of these programs is those offering postgraduate degrees to experienced students being already employed by public or private organisations. These executive programs are…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Masters Programs
Evolving Privatization in Eastern and Central European Higher Education
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Levy, Daniel – European Education, 2014
With the fall of communism in 1989, Eastern and Central Europe would quickly become part of an already strong global tide of privatization in higher education. Nowhere else did private higher education rise so suddenly or strongly from virtual nonexistence to a major regional presence. A fresh database allows us to analyze the extent and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Educational Change
Motivation towards Medical Career Choice and Future Career Plans of Polish Medical Students
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Gasiorowski, Jakub; Rudowicz, Elzbieta; Safranow, Krzysztof – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
This longitudinal study aimed at investigating Polish medical students' career choice motivation, factors influencing specialty choices, professional plans and expectations. The same cohort of students responded to the same questionnaire, at the end of Year 1 and Year 6. The Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U tests and logistic regression were used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Career Choice, Student Motivation
Performances and Spending Efficiency in Higher Education: A European Comparison through Non-Parametric Approaches
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Agasisti, Tommaso – Education Economics, 2011
The objective of this paper is an efficiency analysis concerning higher education systems in European countries. Data have been extracted from OECD data-sets (Education at a Glance, several years), using a non-parametric technique--data envelopment analysis--to calculate efficiency scores. This paper represents the first attempt to conduct such an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Sector, Data Analysis
Polish Higher Education: Intersectoral Distinctiveness
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Musial, Joanna – European Education, 2014
This study analyzes degrees of differences between the private and public sectors of Polish higher education. It finds them to be strong: Polish private institutions function very differently from Polish public institutions and these differences correspond with those found in the literature on higher education elsewhere in the world. Polish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Comparative Analysis
Who Shall Pay for the Public Good? Comparative Trends in the Funding Crisis of Public Higher Education
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Lebeau, Yann; Stumpf, Rolf; Brown, Roger; Lucchesi, Martha Abrahao Saad; Kwiek, Marek – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The aftermath of the international financial crisis of 2008/2009 and current economic downturn in the world economy has unsurprisingly put publicly-funded higher education (HE) systems under immense pressure in most parts of the world. Added to measures of the past 20 years, aiming at introducing cost effective management approaches imported from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Universities, Student Participation, Educational Change