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Higher Education as Modulator of Gender Inequalities: Evidence of the Spanish Case
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Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Soler, Ángel – Higher Education Policy, 2016
Raising educational levels may help to reduce inequalities between men and women in certain social and economic aspects. Using statistics for Spain, we analyse labour market behaviours such as the rates of activity and unemployment by sex according to the educational level. The results reveal that the differences between men and women decrease as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Bias, Social Justice, Evidence
Fabrications, Time-Consuming Bureaucracy and Moral Dilemmas--Finnish University Employees' Experiences on the Governance of University Work
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Jauhiainen, Arto; Jauhiainen, Annukka; Laiho, Anne; Lehto, Reeta – Higher Education Policy, 2015
This article explores how the university workers of two Finnish universities experienced the range of neoliberal policymaking and governance reforms implemented in the 2000s. These reforms include quality assurance, system of defined annual working hours, outcome-based salary system and work time allocation system. Our point of view regarding…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
Higher Education Expansion in China and the "Ant Tribe" Problem
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He, Yu; Mai, Yinhua – Higher Education Policy, 2015
College Enrolment Expansion policies have been implemented in China since 1999. Unfortunately, numbers of qualified teachers and the amount of educational funds input have not caught up with the pace of student intake. Even the curricula taught in colleges are outdated and work practice programmes are inefficient. As a result, new college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, College Attendance, Educational Policy