Key challenges to the academic profession : UNESCO Forum on Higher Education Research and Knowledge ; International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel
Titelübersetzung:Hauptaufgaben für die akademische Profession
Herausgeber/in:
Kogan, Maurice; Teichler, Ulrich
Quelle: Workshop "The Changing Academic Profession"; Kassel: Jenior (Werkstattberichte / Universität Kassel, Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung -INCHER-, Nr. 65), 2007. 220 S.
Inhalt: "The academic profession all over the world has experienced substantial and rapid changes of its societal, institutional and academic environment. The gradual move towards the knowledge society provided opportunities for a growth of the number of academics but the challenges to reconsider the professional role were by no means without any hardship. The authors of this volume address four areas of key challenges to the academic profession. What do the rising expectations to generate and disseminate relevant knowledge mean: a leap from 'scholarship of discovery' to 'scholarship of application' or new combinations of discovery with social, economic and cultural implications? How does internationalisation affect academics: as a step towards a cosmopolitan academic world or as legalistic competition on world scale? How does the growing power of institutional management shape the academic role: Does the dependent 'knowledge worker' substitute the 'republic of scholars', or is there a new space for academic freedom and responsibility? What does the expansion of graduate education mean: an extension of school-type learning towards the doctorate, or an increased chance of open discourse between senior academics and academics in their formative years? The papers comprised in this volume were presented to a workshop held on 5-6 September 2006 in Kassel, Germany. It was initiated and supported by the Regional Scientific Committee Europe and North America of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, jointly prepared with scholars collaborating in the international comparative survey 'The Changing Academic Profession' scheduled for 2007, and locally organized by the International Centre for Higher Education Research, University of Kassel. The authors addressed the challenges named both comparatively and with emphasis on the experiences from their countries." (author's abstract). Contents: Maurice Kogan, Ulrich Teichler: Key Challenges to the Academic Profession and its Interface with Management: Some Introductory Thoughts (9-18); John Brennan: The Academic Profession and Increasing Expectations of Relevance (19-28); Akira Arimoto: Reflections on the Changing Relevance of the Academic Profession in Japan (29-48); Jesus Francisco Galaz-Fontes, Laura Padilla-Gonzalez, Manuel Gil-Anton: The Increasing Expectation of Relevance for Higher Education and the Academic Profession: Some Reflections on the Case of Mexico (49-64); V. Lynn Meek: Internationalisation of Higher Education and the Australian Academic Profession (65-80); Futao Huang: Challenges of Internationalization of Higher Education and Changes in the Academic Profession: A Perspective from Japan (81-98); Agnete Vabo: Challenges of Internationalization for the Academic Profession in Norway (99-110); Barbara M. Kehm: The Changing Role of Graduate and Doctoral Education as a Challenge to the Academic Profession: Europe and North America Compared Barbara (111-124); Hong Shen: Challenges on the Academic Profession Development Posed by the Changing Doctoral Education in China (125-144); Martin J. Finkelstein: The "New" Look of Academic Careers in the United States (145-158); Maurice Kogan: The Academic Profession and its Interface with Management (159-174); Christine Musselin: Transformation of Academic Work: Facts and Analysisistine Musselin (175-190); Mary Henkel: Shifting Boundaries and the Academic Profession (191-204).
Inhalt: "Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler 'Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work' (2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested." (author's abstract)
Inhalt: "The international mobility of students has considerably gained ground as a major policy in Europe over the last decades. As a result of the heightened political importance attached to international mobility, and the manifold practical attempts to increase it, there is an enhanced need for comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable information on the phenomenon: statistical data on mobility are needed to measure progress - or otherwise - towards the various mobility goals and thus to inform the political actors of the impact of the programmes and other measures launched. However, data measuring real mobility (as opposed to foreign nationality) is not always available and is rarely sufficiently differentiated. This publication has therefore a double objective. First, it investigates which data on international mobility are being compiled and made available and which are not, both at the international, the national and the programme level. Second, this study presents in one volume the student mobility data identified, and - based on an analysis of these data - it tries to depict a picture of the main trends in international student mobility into and out of 32 European countries. Next to analysing and presenting the availability and quality of data on international student mobility, this report also makes recommendations for the improvement of student mobility statistics both at national and international level." (author's abstract). Contents: Maria Kelo, Ulrich Teichler and Bernd Wächter: Introduction (3-6); Ute Lanzendorf: Foreign students and study abroad students (7-53); Ute Lanzendorf: Inwards and outwards mobile students (54-77); Eric Richters and Ulrich Teichler: Student mobility data: current methodological issues and future prospects (78-95); Robin Sibson: The United Kingdom (96-113); Helmut Buchholt and Gernot Schmitz: Germany (114-127); Pirjo Zirra: Finland (128-140); Eric Richters: Netherlands (141-149); Libor Novacek and Helena Sebkova: The Czech Republic (150-161); Bernd Wächter and Siegbert Wuttig: Student mobility in European programmes (162-181); Friedhelm Maiworm and Bernd Wächter: Student mobility in national programmes (182-192).
Quelle: Bielefeld: Webler (Hochschulwesen - Wissenschaft und Praxis), 2004. 58 S.
Inhalt: "Diskussionen über Studiengebühren und andere Studienkosten sowie über die Finanzierung des Studiums, unter anderem durch öffentliche Studienförderung, werden in Deutschland in Wellen immer wieder vehement und engagiert geführt. Vereinfachende Information und Argumentation scheinen dabei ein leichtes Spiel zu haben, weil die Vielfalt wichtiger Dimensionen und unterschiedlicher Ansätze und Erfahrungen in anderen Ländern wenig bekannt ist. Dieser Band, der aus einem im Frühjahr 2004 in Kassel durchgeführten Workshop der Kassel-Darmstadt-Runde hervorgegangen ist, beabsichtigt, einen Beitrag zur Versachlichung der Diskussion zu leisten: Dazu wird die Vielfalt der Argumente sortiert. Studienkosten, Studiengebühren und öffentliche Studienförderung werden im europäischen Vergleich dargestellt. Eingehend behandelt werden die neueren Ansätze zu Studiengebühren, Studienkosten und Studienförderung in Großbritannien, Australien und Österreich." (Autorenreferat)
CEWS Kategorie:Studium und Studierende, Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Universität auf dem Prüfstand : Konzepte und Befunde der Hochschulforschung
Titelübersetzung:Spotlight on universities : concepts and findings relating to university research
Herausgeber/in:
Schwarz, Stefanie; Teichler, Ulrich; Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung, Universität Kassel
Quelle: Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung, Universität Kassel; Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verl. (Schwerpunktreihe Hochschule und Beruf), 2003. 376 S.
Inhalt: "Der Band resümiert die Konzepte und Ergebnisse von mehr als zwanzig neueren Forschungsprojekten des Wissenschaftlichen Zentrums für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung der Universität Kassel zu den Themen: Hochschule und Beruf, Studierende und Studium, Evaluation und Qualität, Internationalisierung der Hochschulen, Schnittstellen zwischen Forschung und Praxis." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: Auf Initiative der Hessischen Staatsministerin für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Mayer, fanden seit 1997 zehn Workshops zum Thema 'Innovative Hochschule: Ideen, Impulse, Projekte in internationaler Perspektive' statt, die sie gemeinsam mit den Hochschulforschern Teichler (Universität Kassel) und teilweise Daniel (früher Kassel, jetzt Zürich) leitete. Auf diesen Workshops referierten und diskutierten Verantwortliche koordinierender Instanzen, Hochschulpräsidentinnen, Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschulforscherinnen aus Australien, Dänemark, Großbritannien, Israel, den Niederlanden, Österreich, Schweden, der Schweiz und den USA. In den 101 Beiträgen dieses Bandes werden die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Workshops in aller Kürze resümiert. Der Band gliedert sich nach den Themenkomplexen, die anlässlich der Workshops behandelt wurden, wie zum Beispiel: neue Studienabschlüsse; Situation des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses nach der Promotion; Universitäten als Stätten der Forschung; Evaluation von Hochschulen; Staat und Hochschulen; Internationalisierung als Gestaltungsaufgabe sowie Dekane als Akteure der Hochschulentwicklung. (ZPol, VS)
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
ERASMUS in the SOCRATES programme : findings of an evaluation study
Titelübersetzung:ERASMUS im SOKRATES-Programm : Ergebnisse einer Evaluationsstudie
Herausgeber/in:
Teichler, Ulrich
Quelle: Bonn: Lemmens (ACA Papers on International Cooperation in Education), 2002. 239 S.
Inhalt: "ERASMUS, the 'flagship' among the educational programmes of the European Union, underwent substantial programmatic and structural changes when it became a sub-programme under the umbrella of the SOCRATES programme in the mid-1990s. The role of the centre of the university was strengthened at the expenses of the networks of departments, and more emphasis was placed on curricular innovation, teaching staff mobility and on involvement of the non-mobile students. This study, being par of the SOCRATES 2000 Evaluation Study, aims to examine the changes occurred in ERASMUS in the late 1990s. It draws from available documents and statistics, and comprises surveys of students, graduates and academics as well as interviews with those involved in curricular innovation and 'thematic networks'. The authors call for efforts to keep academics involved, to establish administrative procedures based on trust and to ensure a stronger role of curricular innovation." (author's abstract). Contents: Ute Lanzendorf and Ulrich Teichler: ERASMUS under the Umbrella of SOCRATES: An Evaluation Study (13-28); Friedhelm Maiworm: Participation in ERASMUS: Figures and Patterns (29-56); Friedhelm Maiworm and Ulrich Teichler: The Policies of Higher Education Institutions (57-82); Friedhelm Maiworm and Ulrich Teichler: The Students' Experience (83-116); Volker Jahr and Ulrich Teichler: Employment and Work of Former Mobile Students (117-136); Friedhelm Maiworm and Ulrich Teichler: The Academics' Views and Experiences (137-160); Anne Klemperer and Marijk van der Wende: Curriculum Development Activities and Thematic Network Projects (161-188); Stephanie Caillé, Jean Gordon, Sander Lotze and Marijk van der Wende: The Implementation of SOCRATES at the National Level (189-200); Ulrich Teichler: The SOCRATES Support Programme: Framework and Management (201-216); Ulrich Teichler: ERASMUS - Observations and Recommendations (217-230).