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Leemann, Regula Julia – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The project of establishing a European community since World War II has been further advanced by adding - besides the four freedoms of free movement of goods, persons, services and capital - a fifth freedom -- the free circulation of researchers, knowledge and technology -- that intends to promote community building at the level of higher…
Descriptors: Governance, Freedom, Higher Education, Postdoctoral Education
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Muschallik, Julia; Pull, Kerstin – Education Economics, 2016
Mentoring programs are increasingly widespread in academia. Still, comparatively little is known about their effects. With the help of a self-collected dataset of 368 researchers in two different fields and accounting for self-selection via matching techniques, we find mentees in formal mentoring programs to be more productive than comparable…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Productivity, Economics Education
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Tzanakou, Charikleia – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
The number of dual career couples in academia is growing due to the increasing proportion of women with a doctoral degree and the greater propensity of women to choose another academic as their partner. At the same time, international mobility is required for career advancement in academia, creating challenges for dual career couples where both…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Higher Education, Women Faculty
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Shin, Jung Cheol; Lee, Soo Jeung; Kim, Yangson – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
This study analyzed whether research collaboration patterns differ across higher education systems based on maturity of the systems, their language, and their geographical region. This study found that collaboration patterns differ across higher education systems: academics in developed systems are more collaborative than their colleagues in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, International Cooperation, Cooperation
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Brundiers, Katja; Wiek, Arnim – Innovative Higher Education, 2011
Readers are invited to imagine students helping to solve real-world sustainability problems brought to them by societal stakeholders and simultaneously learning about and contributing to sustainable changes in society. Effective sustainability research education engages students in just that. Higher education institutions are implementing this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vision, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving
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Baschung, Lukas; Goastellec, Gaele; Leresche, Jean-Philippe – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
Although eternally debated, the issue of autonomy in higher education is rarely analysed in its complexity. To address this issue, this article uses an analytical matrix which combines the distinction between substantive and procedural autonomy and the distinction between HEI governing bodies, academic professions and individual academics. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Governance, Federal Government