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Dissertation
A Comparative Study on Internationalization and the Role of International Offices at Selected Middle Eastern and German Universities
(2012-07-03)
Internationalization of higher education has become one of the most important policies for institutions of higher education worldwide. Though universities are international by nature, the need for intensified quality activities of international nature has promoted internationalization to be under spotlight of researchers, administrators and policy makers and to be an area for research. Each institution follows its certain way to govern its international affairs. Most Universities, especially in the 'Developed World' ...
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Die Besetzung von Professuren an deutschen Universitäten. Empirische Analysen zum Wandel von Stellenprofilen und zur Bewerber(innen)auswahl
(2017-09-12)
Ausgangspunkt der Dissertation ist die Annahme, dass Universitäten im Zuge des Governance-Wandels im deutschen Hochschulsektor zunehmend als autonom entscheidende Organisationen in Erscheinung getreten sind, wodurch sie gleichzeitig zu Adressaten veränderter gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen avanciert sind. Entsprechend der neo-institutionalistischen Organisationstheorie sollten sich Universitäten diesen Erwartungen anpassen, um ihre Legitimität in der organisationalen Umwelt zu sichern. Da Universitäten erstens die ...
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Non-University Higher Education and the Relationship of Its Graduates and the World of Work: Colombia
(2014-01-08)
The non-university sector has been part of the Colombian higher education system for more than 50-years. Despite its long years of existence, it has never occupied such an important role within the education system as the one it is having today. Therefore, the aim of this work is to analyze the development of the non-university sector in the framework of the country’s social, educational and economic demands. Likewise, its actual situation and certain aspects of the relationship between its graduates and the world ...
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Identification of Problem-based learning components and their effects on graduates' competencies
(2014-06-17)
This study investigated the relationship between higher education and the requirement of the world of work with an emphasis on the effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on graduates' competencies.
The implementation of full PBL method is costly (Albanese & Mitchell, 1993; Berkson, 1993; Finucane, Shannon, & McGrath, 2009). However, the implementation of PBL in a less than curriculum-wide mode is more achievable in a broader context (Albanese, 2000). This means higher education institutions implement only a few PBL ...
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Private Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman: Rationales, Development and Challenges
(2011-06-22)
Diese Studie stellt die Entwicklung des privaten Hochschulbereichs im Oman dar und analysiert sie auf die damit verbundenen Erwartungen. Sie untersucht die wesentlichen Herausforderungen, denen sich dieser Sektor zu stellen hat, und formuliert einige Empfehlungen, um die Rolle der privaten Hochschulbildung im Oman zu fördern. Um die Situation in Oman einordnen zu konnen, wurde die Literatur zu Systemen der privaten Hochschulbildung in verschiedenen Ländern vergleichend aufgearbeitet. Der Autor dieser Dissertation hat ...
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A Study of a Comprehensive Career Services System in Chinese Universities
(2011-12-19)
Since 1999, with the adoption of expansion policy in higher education by the Chinese government, enrollment and graduate numbers have been increasing at an unprecedented speed. Accustomed to a system in which university graduates were placed, many students are not trained in “selling themselves”, which exacerbates the situation leading to a skyrocketing unemployment rate among new graduates. The idea of emphasizing career services comes with increasing employment pressure among university graduates in recent years. ...
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The social dimension: a neglected policy item in the Bologna Process
(2013-11-04)
Since its beginning in 1999, the Bologna Process has influenced various aspects of higher education in its member countries, e.g., degree structures, mobility, lifelong learning, social dimension and quality assurance. The social dimension creates the focus of this research. The social dimension entered the Bologna Process agenda in 2001. Despite a decade of reforms, it somehow remained as a vague element and received low scholarly attention. This research addresses to this gap.
Firstly, different meanings of the ...
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Higher Education Governance in Vietnam: University Action, the State and Changing Relationships
(2013-09-18)
Diese Dissertation stellt eine Studie da, welche sich mit den Änderungen in der Governance der Hochschulbildung in Vietnam beschäftigt. Das zentrale Ziel dieser Forschungsarbeit ist die Untersuchung der Herkunft und Änderung in der Beziehung der Mächte zwischen dem vietnamesischen Staat und den Hochschulbildungsinstituten (HI), welche hauptsächlich aus der Interaktion dieser beiden Akteure resultiert. Die Macht dieser beiden Akteure wurde im sozialen Bereich konstruiert und ist hauptsächlich durch ihre Nützlichkeit ...
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Competencies of Higher Education Graduates: A Case of Universitas Kristen Indonesia
(2013-04-16)
This dissertation investigated higher education graduate competencies, acquired during their study period and required at work as perceived by the graduates themselves. This study also investigated whether graduates of professional, semiprofessional, and non-professional study programs acquired different levels of competencies during their studies and compared the gaps among the three groups of graduates. The case study is Universitas Kristen Indonesia graduates of graduation years 2001, 2003, and 2005, from the ...