Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Globalization and Change in Higher Education: Economic, Political, and Social Explanations
Beverly Barrett The internationalization of higher education is a response to the pressures of globalization. There are economic, political, and social explanations for the reforms that have taken place in Europe since the Bologna Process launched 18 years ago on June 19, 1999 in the historic university city of Bologna, Italy. Correspondingly, these explanations for […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on ECPR 2017 – continuing our focus on higher education, research and innovation
Hannah Moscovitz and Martina Vukasovic This year’s ECPR (European Consortium of Political Research) General Conference took place at the University of Oslo between September 6-9. The conference included hundreds of panels on a wide array of topics and representation from close to 2,000 academics from around the world. The […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Unbundling and reassembling knowledge production
Janja Komljenovic ‘Unbundling and reassembling knowledge production’ was the title of the panel that I have convened with Susan Robertson at the recent General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that this year took place in Oslo, 6-9 September; this panel was part of the section organized by the ECPR Standing Group […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Innovating regional ecosystems and modernizing professional higher education
Sandra Hasanefendic Fostering regional and innovation ecosystems through strengthening professional higher education and related research activities has been an imperative in recent years in Europe and globally. I have been personally involved both as a researcher, and expert adviser in understanding how and through which mechanisms can this be achieved. In recent years, I have […]
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Michaela Martin and Christine Emeran A result of the rapid expansion and diversification of the higher education sector is that academic quality has come under greater scrutiny. The development of internal quality assurance (IQA) systems by higher education institutions (HEIs), as a means of monitoring and managing quality, constitutes one of the most important reform […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Making global education markets and trade
Janja Komljenovic and Susan L. Robertson How are education markets constructed? What is the global education industry? How is education becoming part of global trade in services? Who are the actors involved? What are the consequences and outcomes for the sector and for society at large? These are some of the key questions addressed in […]
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Martina Vukasovic The third edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) took place 28-30 June 2017, in Singapore, on the premises of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (following the 1st ICPP in Grenoble in 2013 and the 2nd ICPP in Milan in 2015). The conference included almost 150 thematic panels […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Grand societal global challenges: fashion or paradigm shift in knowledge policies?
Inga Ulnicane Tackling Grand societal global challenges has become a popular goal of knowledge policies and governance including many science, technology, innovation and higher education strategies and initiatives. Over the past 15 years, the European Union, many international organizations, national governments, private foundations, scientific societies and universities have declared their priority to address societal challenges […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Training students for new jobs: Intermediary function of technical and vocational higher education
Sandra Hasanefendic and Hugo Horta A couple of years ago, I read a sentence that stuck with me ever since: “Our world has changed but our schools have not.” It was one of the sentences from Tony Wagner’s book “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our […]
Published on by Europe of Knowledge | Comments Off on Out of the Shades: The Bologna and ASEM Education Secretariats as Transnational Policy Actors in their own Right
Que Anh Dang The Bologna Process (BP) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Education Process – each brings together some 50 member countries and a handful of international organisations – have become major regional and inter-regional higher education projects and generated many research papers. However, both the Bologna and ASEM Education Secretariat that have been contributing […]
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