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Korfmann, Frauke; Müller, Sven; Ehlert, Sebastian; Haase, Knut – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
In Germany enrolment in majors is of considerable interest to academic departments, because their budget depends on the number of enrolled students. Besides observed factors, we presume that unobserved latent variables influence the major-choice decision of students. Using stated preferences data from a discrete choice experiment among students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Business Administration Education, Preferences
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Laudel, Grit – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2017
Early career researchers are faced with the expectation of their scientific communities to conduct independent research, which is reflected in the development of independent new research lines. This change must take place under conditions that vary between national career systems. Case studies for a chair system (Germany) and two tenure systems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Career Centers, Barriers
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Svirin, Yury A.; Titor, Svetlana E.; Petrov, Alexander A.; Smirnov, Evgenii N.; Morozova, Ekaterina A.; Scherbakova, Olga Y. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the chosen problem is caused by the necessity of finding a model of qualitative growth of specialists training in conditions when cuts in expenditure of the state budget allocated to education occurs annually. Besides, the development of technology inevitably leads to the expansion of the list of subspecialties employers need. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Federal Regulation, Evidence Based Practice
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Danton, J. Periam – Library Quarterly, 1983
This article advances hypothesis that current university library book expenditures are no greater than past expenditures and explores six methodological questions involved in testing the hypothesis. A comparative study of German university libraries in 1860 and 1960 and American unversity libraries in 1910 and 1960 is presented. References are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Budgets, College Faculty