Der Begründer der Hochschulforschung in Deutschland, Ulrich Teichler, blickt auf mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte Hochschulforschung zurück. Wirtschaftswunder und Hochschulexpansion, studentische Bewegung, Experimente und Krisen der 1970er Jahre, Organisationsruhe, Wiedervereinigung, Internationalisierung, Ranking- und Management-Kult – all dies sind historische Stationen, die sich in Hochschule und Wissenschaft widerspiegeln. Ulrich Teichler berichtet als unmittelbar Beteiligter mit Offenheit und Humor und liefert zugleich kluge Analysen.
This book contains research-based essays by established scholars from four continents. It analyzes the development of international policies in higher education and the impact of mutual observation and policy borrowing on national policies, and offers insights into recent changes and challenges for students, staff, and labour market relationships. It is for researchers, policymakers, managers in higher education, academic institutions, and government, as well as for academic staff.
The author shows that comparative perspectives and the search for an internationally”best” or “most modern” solutions at times lead to convergent trends.
This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the views on the major tasks of teaching, research and services, their professional preferences and actual activities, their career, their perceived influence and their overall job satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on the influence of recent changes in higher education: the internationalisation and globalisation, the increasing expectation to provide evidence of the relevance of academic work, and finally the growing power of management at higher education institutions. Overall, the academics surveyed show that worldwide discourses and trends in higher education put their mark on the academic profession, but differences by country continue to be noteworthy. Academics consider themselves to be more strongly exposed to mechanism of regulations, incentives and sanctions as well as various assessments than in the past; yet their own freedom, and responsibilities and influence shape their identity more strongly and are reflected in widespread professional satisfaction.
This book explores a noteworthy variety among economically advanced countries in the competences fostered by higher education, and the emphasis placed either on laying a broad basis of knowledge or direct preparation for professional tasks. In some countries, universities are closely involved in ensuring a rapid transition from student to employee; in others, students typically face a long period after graduation for the search of a suitable career.
This study aimed to synthesize the scattered sources of information available on the 3-year, technically oriented Fachhochschulen type of higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany. Organized into six sections, the book starts with a review of the organization of the higher education system including the trend towards a unitary system, the establishment of the comprehensives and the Fachhochschulen, institutional patterns, options for qualified school leavers, higher education objectives, and administrative and legal arrangements. The second section examines course content and organization including entrance qualifications and admissions, duration of studies, practical periods, certification, and curricular innovation. A third section seeks to assess the prestige of institutional types in particular the Fachhochschulen versus the universities. Section four provides a statistical overview in the form of tables with detailed explanation. The fifth section treats teachers in the Fachhochschulen as they compare to the staff at universities qualitatively, and with regard to career, status and duties beyond their major functions. The concluding section takes a look at the past and future of the Fachhochschulen, in particular the difficulties this type of higher education faces due to the societal environment in West Germany which continues to regard the traditional university education as best. (JB)
Higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is addressed in six papers written between the years 1981 and 1985. The papers are as follows: (1) "Changing the Pattern of Higher Education Systems: An Account of Access and Structural Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany in Comparative Perspective;" (2) "The Changing Labour Force and Expansion of Higher Education in the Federal Republic of Germany;" (3) "Federal Systems of Higher Education: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany;" (4) "Higher Education and Graduate Employment in the Federal Republic of Germany;" (5) "Further Education at Universities in the Federal Republic of Germany;" and (6) "University Staff in the Federal Republic of Germany." Topics include: the expansion of higher education after World War II and the access policy of West Germany and Western industrialized countries, ways of restructuring higher education to accommodate the growing number of students, five characteristics of German higher education that affect structural policy, five structural models for promoting access to higher education, the rationale of coordination of higher education at the national level in West Germany, the labor market for college graduates, adult education and continuing education, and the academic career and status of the college professoriate. (SW)
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