Mapping the Higher Education Landscape: Towards a European by F. van Vught (Ed.),F. van Vught PDF

An very important contribution to the foreign dialogue on greater schooling globalization and all over the world scores of upper schooling associations, this quantity criticizes the present one-dimensional and aggregated overseas rating types and indicates an engaging and interesting new process of multi-dimensional mapping of upper schooling institutions.

The textual content provides readers a window at the precise technique of constructing a brand new method of developing potent transparency within the variety of upper schooling platforms. It describes the conceptual, sensible and methodological frameworks proper to this new process, whose improvement was once in line with theoretical and empirical literature on range in larger schooling. The authors document at the layout method and examine that have been utilized to boost the recent software and likewise position it within the context of present supranational and nationwide larger schooling policies.

The new procedure emerged from a top-level ecu venture to layout the 1st ecu class of upper schooling associations as a device for mapping the range of the better schooling panorama. The editor and bankruptcy authors are all overseas leaders within the box who took half within the multi-year undertaking. additionally they discover the aptitude program of the class within the contexts of the Bologna technique and the ecu better schooling and learn components (EHEA and ERA). The ebook analyzes, too, how the process can be utilized on the point of person greater schooling associations, the place the class is proven to be an invaluable tool for strategic institutional profiling.

This quantity might be of curiosity to politicians and policy-makers in greater schooling on the supranational, nationwide and sub-national degrees, and to leaders and executives of upper schooling associations and institutions. it's also hugely correct to employees contributors and advisors at assorted coverage degrees, to raised schooling researchers and scholars, and to all who're drawn to the additional improvement of upper schooling platforms and institutions.