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  title info:
    title: Mapping the Higher Education Landscape
    sub title: Towards a European Classifi cation of Higher Education
  name:
    name part: Vught, Frans van.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 170 p. online resource.
  abstract: An important contribution to the international discussion on higher education globalization and worldwide rankings of higher education institutions, this volume criticizes the existing one-dimensional and aggregated international ranking models and suggests an interesting and exciting new approach of multi-dimensional mapping of higher education institutions. The text gives readers a window on the unique process of developing a new approach to creating effective transparency in the diversity of higher education systems. It describes the conceptual, practical and methodological frameworks relevant to this new approach, whose development was based on theoretical and empirical literature on diversity in higher education. The authors report on the design methodology and research that were applied to develop the new instrument and also place it in the context of current supranational and national higher education policies. The new system emerged from a top-level EU project to design the first European classification of higher education institutions as a tool for mapping the diversity of the higher education landscape. The editor and chapter authors are all international leaders in the field who took part in the multi-year project. They also explore the potential application of the classification in the contexts of the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education and Research Areas (EHEA and ERA). The book analyzes, too, how the system can be used at the level of individual higher education institutions, where the classification is shown to be a useful instrument for strategic institutional profiling. This volume will be of interest to politicians and policy-makers in higher education at the supranational, national and sub-national levels, and to leaders and managers of higher education institutions and associations. It is also highly relevant to staff members and advisors at different policy levels, to higher education researchers and students, and to all who are in…
  table of contents: Diversity and Differentiation in Higher Education -- Diversity in European Higher Education: Historical Trends and Current Policies -- The Search for Transparency: Convergence and Diversity in the Bologna Process -- The European Higher Education Classification: Objectives and Concepts -- Rankings and Classifications: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach -- The European Higher Education Classification: The Design Process -- Using the Classification in the European Higher Education Area -- Using the Classification in the European Research Area -- Using the Classification for Institutional Profiling: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology -- Using the Classification for Institutional Profiling: The University of Strathclyde.
  note: edited by Frans van Vught.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  classification: LB43
  classification: 370.116
  classification: 370.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Higher Education Dynamics, 28
  identifier: 9789048122493
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2249-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180938.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-2249-3