Mapping the Higher Education Landscape Towards a European Classifi c
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 sugges
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 28 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES
Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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Frans A. van Vught Editor
Mapping the Higher Education Landscape Towards a European Classification of Higher Education
Editor Frans A. van Vught University of Twente The Netherlands
ISBN 978-90-481-2248-6
e-ISBN 978-90-481-2249-3
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Preface
This book is the result of a project focused on the development of an instrument able to create useful and effective transparency in the diversity of European higher education. The project has been undertaken by an international team of experts and has been sponsored by the European Commission. The book offers the conceptual, empirical and methodological frameworks relevant for the development of the transparency instrument. It founds this instrument in the theoretical and empirical literature about diversity in higher education systems. It places it in the contexts of the current supranational and national higher education policies in Europe. And it reports on the methodologies of design and re
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