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The Worst of Times? A Tale of Two Higher Education Institutions in France: Their Merger and Its Impact on Staff Working Lives
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Evans, Linda – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This paper presents the preliminary findings of a case study of the merger of two higher education institutions in France. The paper's main focus is not the politics that gave rise to the institutional merger, nor the rights or wrongs of the decision, nor the merger process itself; rather, it is the extent to and the ways in which these features…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Organizational Change
Accepting Employability as a Purpose of Higher Education? Academics' Perceptions and Practices
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Sin, Cristina; Tavares, Orlanda; Amaral, Alberto – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This study explores Portuguese academics' acceptance of employability as a purpose for higher education further to the Bologna reforms, focusing on their understandings of employability and their teaching practices. The data were gathered through focus groups in which participated around 70 academics from 3 disciplinary areas, belonging to…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices
How Availability of Capital Affects the Timing of Enrollment: The Routes to University of Traditional and Non-Traditional Students
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Brändle, Tobias – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
In the aftermath of the Bologna Process, Germany decided to open universities for individuals who do not possess a scholastic university entrance qualification but completed vocational education. This paper questions how long it takes until these so-called non-traditional students enroll and compares their routes to university to the routes of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Nontraditional Students, Vocational Education
The Tension between Marketisation and Academisation in Higher Education
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Ek, Anne-Charlotte; Ideland, Malin; Jönsson, Sandra; Malmberg, Claes – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Contemporary changes in higher education in Sweden are characterised by two educational discourses: marketisation and academisation. Demands to meet market requirements, as well as to make education more scientific, have created tensions between and within institutional cultures. Using interviews with 16 heads of departments, the authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, College Role
Pleasure, Change and Values in Doctoral Pedagogy
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Hughes, Christina – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
This article explores pleasure in terms of the values of independent judgement, writerly authority, originality and singularity associated with doctoral study. It also considers how pleasure can be understood as a mode of experience that acts as a force for change. Here, the article takes a broad Deleuzian approach that is concerned with our…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Self Motivation, Anxiety, Doctoral Programs
The "Research-Teaching Nexus" and "Education through Research": An Exploration of Ambivalences
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Simons, Maarten; Elen, Jan – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article presents and discusses the results of a literature review that was conducted in order to understand ambivalences observed in reflections on the research-teaching nexus. As a result of this literature review, it is possible to attribute these ambivalences to the mixed use of two approaches: on the one hand, a functional approach that…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Technology, Educational Researchers, Educational Environment