Reforms in German Higher Education: Implementing and Adapting Anglo-American Organizational and Management Structures at German Universities

Liefner, Ingo; Schätzl, Ludwig; Schröder, Thomas

doi:10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300039

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“…All these challenges impose improving the national competitiveness, quality in higher education system, productivity and strengthen social cohesion (Kyvik 2004;Liefner et al 2004;Musselin 2007;Teichler 2006). As Bleiklie and Kogan (2007) highlight, "the notion of the university as a republic of scholars" is shifting "towards the idea of the university as a stakeholder organization".…”

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Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview

Moraru

Praisler

Marin

et al. 2014

Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives

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Cheng and Tam (1997, p. 23) suggest that "education quality is a rather vague and controversial concept " and Pounder (1999, p. 156) argues that quality is a "notoriously ambiguous term". The present study identifies and examines numerous challenges posed by standardisation and global approaches of quality assurance and their implications for educational restructuring, a special attention being paid to new forms of Quality Assurance Systems (QAS) covering the relation between teaching and research, students' feedback/students' implication or crossinstitutional assessments. The main themes are direct statements extracted from the interviewees' responses that were considered to be the most meaningful to the central areas of inquiry. They are: quality assurance system significance; satisfaction with QAS; QAS implementation issues; QAS organizational benefits; quality vs. quantity; research vs. teaching in terms of QA; students' feedback/students' implication; standardisation/general model vs. flexible approach; structural changes; and cross-institutional assessment tools.For a better understanding of the results presented in this chapter we should mention that each main theme presented here was covered by different members of the project team, i.e. the project team has been divided into three smaller, separate teams, each with its own tasks, in order to maximize the efficiency of the work. As a result, not all countries involved in the project managed to answer to all the research themes. Switzerland focused on the academic recruitment process, and it has not

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confidence: 96%

Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview

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Praisler

Marin

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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives

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“…This dramatic decrease in investments has been amplified by the protectionism prevailing in Italy, which causes promising young researchers to take flight, resulting in brain drain [30,31]. But even in countries where the crisis has been more easily overcome, structural issues of universities are spotted as the hierarchical structure of German and Austrian universities [32,33,34]. Another problem is low intergenerational mobility, which prevents better exploitation of the pool of talents [35].…”

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The Trend of Scientific Productivity of Chinese, European Union and United States Universities and Private Companies: Does the Future Belong to E-Technology Companies?

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Angermeyer²,

Tagliagambe³

2021

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The purpose is to verify trends of scientific production from 2010 to 2020, considering the best universities of the United States, China, the European Union (EU) and private companies. The top 30 universities in 2020 in China, the EU, and the US and private companies were selected from the SCImago institutions ranking (SIR). The positions in 2020, 2015, 2010 in SIR and three sub-indicators were analyzed by means of non-parametric statistics, taking into consideration the effect of time and group on rankings. American and European Union universities have lost positions to Chinese universities and even more to private companies, which have improved. In 2020, private companies have surpassed all other groups considering Innovation as sub-indicator. The loss of leadership of European and partly American universities mainly concerns research linked to the production of patents. This can lead to future risks of monopoly that may elude public control and cause a possible loss of importance of research not linked to innovation.

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“…This dramatic decrease in investments has been amplified by the protectionism prevailing in Italy, which causes promising young researchers to take flight, resulting in brain drain [30,31]. However, even in countries where the crisis has been more easily overcome, structural issues of universities are spotted as the hierarchical structure of German and Austrian universities [32][33][34]. Another problem is low intergenerational mobility, which prevents better exploitation of the pool of talents [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Trend of Scientific Productivity of Chinese, European Union, and United States Universities and Private Companies: Does the Future Belong to E-Technology Companies?

Carta

Angermeyer²,

Tagliagambe

2021

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The purpose is to verify trends of scientific production from 2010 to 2020, considering the best universities of the United States, China, the European Union (EU), and private companies. The top 30 universities in 2020 in China, the EU, and the US and private companies were selected from the SCImago institutions ranking (SIR). The positions in 2020, 2015, and 2010 in SIR and three sub-indicators were analyzed by means of non-parametric statistics, taking into consideration the effect of time and group on rankings. American and European Union universities have lost positions to Chinese universities and even more to private companies, which have improved. In 2020, private companies have surpassed all other groups considering Innovation as a sub-indicator. The loss of leadership of European and partly American universities mainly concerns research linked to the production of patents. This can lead to future risks of monopoly that may elude public control and cause a possible loss of importance of research not linked to innovation.

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Reforms in German Higher Education: Implementing and Adapting Anglo-American Organizational and Management Structures at German Universities

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview

Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview

The Trend of Scientific Productivity of Chinese, European Union and United States Universities and Private Companies: Does the Future Belong to E-Technology Companies?

The Trend of Scientific Productivity of Chinese, European Union, and United States Universities and Private Companies: Does the Future Belong to E-Technology Companies?

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