Search results for "higher education"

Understanding the challenges of rapid digital transformation : the case of COVID-19 pandemic in higher education

2021

Rapid digital transformation is taking place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing organisations and higher educational institutions to change their working and learning culture. This study explores the challenges of rapid digital transformation arising during the pandemic in the higher education context. This research used the Q-methodology to understand the nine challenges that higher education encountered, perceived differently as four main patterns: (1) Digital-nomad enterprise; (2) Corporate-collectivism; (3) Well-being-oriented; and (4) Pluralistic. This study broadens the current understanding of digital transformation, especially in higher education. The nine challenges and four pat…

Challenges and trends in comparative higher education: an editorial

2013

[Introduction] International comparative higher education research has proliferated since its institutionalization as an interdisciplinary field in the 1960s and 1970s (Jarausch 1985) and has gained special momentum in the 1990s (Teichler 1996). On the one hand, the benefits of comparative research approaches in international higher education have been repeatedly emphasized (Altbach and Kelly 1985; Teichler 1996; Rhoades 2001). These include, for example, increasing the capacity to generalize about a greater number of units under analysis, the capacity of a systematic comparison to illuminate the dynamics of a particular system better than a single-system study as well as highlighting knowl…

Public to private: Narratives of change in the wake of European higher education decentralisation

2023

Higher Education and Global Social Injustice

2020

This dissertation, composed of three unique scholarly articles, explores some of the ways in which institutions of higher education facilitate and mitigate social injustice on a global scale. Specifically analyzing the behavior of administrative actors—defined as those that serve in a leadership role outside of the classroom—the purpose of the research was twofold. Firstly, I aimed to identify the mechanisms by which administrative actors at U.S. and Finnish institutions of higher education legitimized and rationalized their involvement in globally unjust educational practices. Secondly, I sought to identify the ways in which administrative actors in these economically privileged countries …

Osservazioni a margine della sentenza del Tar Lombardia sull'uso della lingua inglese nell'insegnamento universitario. Profili comparativi

2013

Prendendo spunto dalla recente sentenza del 23.5.2013 del Tar Lombardia con cui si è annullata la delibera adottata dal Senato accademico del Politecnico di Milano riguardante la mozione sull’adozione della lingua inglese per i corsi di laurea magistrale e di dottorato di ricerca a partire dall’anno 2014, si sono svolte delle considerazioni sull’internazionalizzazione dell’istruzione superiore, partendo dal comunicato di Bucarest, 2012 e dalla strategia sulla mobilità per un migliore apprendimento. Si è proceduto, quindi, ad analizzare come nell’ordinamento francese, con la legge n.2013-660 del 22.7.2013, si sia disciplinato l’uso della lingua straniera nell’insegnamento universitario, per …

University education in Spain and the European Union: Economic effects and social contributions

2018

Las universidades preservan y difunden el conocimiento, actúan como centros intelectuales de orden nacional e internacional, son un instrumento de movilidad social al facilitar que los individuos puedan mejorar sus ingresos y posición social, actúan como motores del desarrollo económico estimulando las economías locales y proporcionan además una educación de carácter general. La sociedad española ha experimentado una transformación sin precedentes en las últimas décadas, siendo uno de los cambios más relevantes el significativo aumento del nivel educativo medio de sus ciudadanos, tanto por la reducción hasta mínimos históricos de la población analfabeta, como por el significativo incremento…

“Hot Case-workers and Squint-eyed Whores” - Sexual Harassment of Norwegian Social- and Health Care Students in Practical Training

2022

Sexual harassment is a societal challenge. Youth, women, students, and health care professionals are some of the groups most at risk for experiencing sexual harassment. In this study, we examine how higher education institutions and practice institutions handle sexual harassment and how students in practical training experience and cope with sexual harassment. A survey and in-depth interviews were conducted among nursing students and social work students at one Norwegian university. Our results indicate that students experience sexual harassment during practice that is an obligatory part of training, that guidance and follow-up are often lacking, and that they experience negative consequenc…

Indicadores para la Evaluación de las Instituciones Universitarias: Validación a través del Método Delphi

2012

Artículo distribuido bajo una licencia de uso y distribución “Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No Comercial 3.0 España”.

Quality culture at Nordic universities

2022

This study aimed to investigate common features and ways of understanding quality culture (QC) within higher education institutions (HEIs) in Nordic countries. While the concept of QC is commonly accepted and often used, its meaning is not always clear. This paper focuses on how Nordic universities frame QC in their internal documentation. The Nordic context was chosen due to the close cooperation on quality issues that characterise HEIs within the Nordic region. The discussion section of this paper outlines QC in relation to quality assurance (QA) among HEIs within the European and Nordic regions. Sixteen universities participated in the study by sharing documents describing their QCs. The…

Recruitments in Finnish universities: practicing strategic or pathetic HRM?

2016

Recruitment is a core instrument in the academic labour market. This article takes the perspective of the organisation − here, the university − on recruitment. Universities’ personnel policies and practises are shifting from legally oriented personnel administration to more strategic human resource management (HRM). In Nordic countries, this shift is partly driven by the changing status of higher education institutions from state-governed bureaus to more autonomous institutions. This article provides insight into this transition, using Finland as a case example of higher education systems that have undergone drastic reform, moving from a civil servant model to autonomous personnel policy. D…