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Quality Assurance in Nordic Higher Education: Relevance and Quality for the Welfare State?
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Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne – Higher Education Policy, 2022
Quality assurance (QA) has become an important feature in higher education governance in Europe, with policies for increased harmonization and periodic accreditations as pillars. Still, the shift to emphasize quality development and enhancement entails that QA systems can attend to a wider range of considerations than before. This article studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
The Effect of Different Types of Education on the Likelihood of Employment in 29 Post-Communist Countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
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Habibov, Nazim; Auchynnikova, Alena; Luo, Rong – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of a variety of levels of education, namely, high school, vocational and university education, on the probability of being employed in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach: The data are from two waves of the Life-in-Transition Survey that covers 29…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Human Capital, Outcomes of Education, Employment Patterns
The Changing Face of the Academic Profession in Western Europe.
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Neave, Guy – European Journal of Education, 1983
The primary changes in the teaching profession occurred in the mid-1970s as a result of pressures for student participation in decision making and closer government supervision of procedure and expenditure. Included were changes in the conditions of service and in the relationships between teaching and research and between faculty and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Employment Patterns
Equal Educational Opportunity in Western Europe: A Contradictory Relation.
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Levin, Henry M. – 1976
Based on four standards of measurement, it appears that the educational systems of Western Europe fail to provide a significant equalizing influence. The four criteria are: (1) equality of educational access, (2) equality of educational participation, (3) equality of educational results, (4) and equality of educational effects on life chances.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Economic Opportunities