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Davies, Alex – Tertiary Education and Management, 2019
Failures to standardize the work required to receive equal credit points from different courses make credit points unfit for their official purposes. Moreover, increasingly, institutions are found where students are required to take a high number of courses simultaneously. This study aimed to identify plausible hypotheses about how high…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Universities, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Bunescu, Luisa; Gaebel, Michael – European University Association, 2018
In recent years, the enhancement of learning and teaching has become a priority, not only for higher education institutions, but also for national governments, the European Union and the Bologna Process. This report aims to map the learning and teaching landscape in 28 higher education systems and to provide insight into how teaching enhancement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Instruction, National Programs
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Eisenschmidt, Eve; Kuusisto, Elina; Poom-Valickis, Katrin; Tirri, Kirsi – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
This study investigates how moral virtues create purpose for ethical leadership. Four exemplary principals, two from Estonia and two from Finland, were interviewed to study their perceptions of critical incidents in their work and how moral virtues are manifest in their reflections. The results of qualitative content analysis showed that the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Principals, School Administration, Moral Values
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Dorner, Helga – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
This paper outlines the findings from a research project on students' conceptions of learning in a series of international online collaborative seminars that involved partner institutions from Europe and the US. The lead institution was an international, graduate university in Europe. The study was conducted with the aim of exploring the…
Descriptors: Seminars, International Educational Exchange, Educational Cooperation, Electronic Learning
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Elken, Mari – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
The development of comprehensive national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe has been sparked by the introduction of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) in 2008. Taking an institutional perspective, this article examines the development of NQFs in three countries, in light of developments that have taken place at the European…
Descriptors: Qualifications, National Standards, Educational Development, Educational Cooperation
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Szabó, Ildikó – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Reading and understanding texts of all kinds form a basic competence for participating in social and cultural life and for being successful on a job. Although most European adolescents have adequate reading competences at their disposal by the end of school, about a quarter of them cannot meet the minimal standards. The urgency of this societal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Literacy, Research Projects