The speech reflects on conditions and tendencies of world higher education in 2018. We mostly think of societies and higher education systems as stable platforms that move forward slowly in linear fashion. But it is our perceptions that are static not the reality. In reality, over time, human societies and polities are more like ships in the open ocean, with unstable decks rocking up and down, subject to unpredictable currents and ever-changing weather, climactic and ecological conditions (not to mention contingent and capricious navigation and steerage!). Higher education systems in Europe and beyond are closely engaged in nation-states, and also deeply implicated in international relations and global society. Hence, they are continuously rocked by the present de-stabilisation of politics and public communications in North America and Europe, by ever-growing economic and social inequalities within countries, by geo-political shifts triggered by the rising global importance of East Asian (Sinic) civilization, including the Belt and Road initiative, and the breakdown of state building in parts of Africa and the Middle East, by more strident national identity in many quarters, and by the global-national tensions inevitable in a converging world, especially in relation to migration. It is important that when we take stock we comprehend the immense and growing contribution that higher education and its disciplines now make to human society. Higher education and the associated research foster human agency and collaborative knowledge - national and global common goods - on a scale never before seen. Higher education sensibilities, institutions and systems are a great resource for societies and regions that are struggling to survive and flourish. Yet universities, faculty and students operate in circumstances that are only partly of their own making. Everywhere we find that under the present conditions of disequilibria, the social value, materiality, autonomy and resilience of higher education are under growing pressure.
1) Katja Jönsas(University of Roehampton UK) Previously, you didn't have to think about these things' Responding to diversification - organizational dynamics within a Finnish Faculty
2) Susanne Lohmann (University of California, USA) From Inner Cathedral to Pancake People: On the differentiation of national university systems (is there a limit? have we reached it?)
3) Daniel Kontowski (University of Winchester UK) Founding fathers and blurred lines. First leaders on the “liberal arts” they (re)introduced in 8 European countries
I love to share my passion for liberal arts education in Europe and hear about similar ideas and problems. I studied first leaders in 8 European countries: did they want the same thing? For the many or the few? Why then? What now?
1) Ludovic Highman (University College London UK), Simon Marginson (University College London UK), William Locke (University College London UK), Vassiliki Papatsiba (University of Sheffield UK) The impact of Brexit on UK universities: challenges and opportunities
2) Rochelle Ge (University of Saint Joseph, Macau) Adapting Heterogeneity: Restructuring Traditional Chinese Medicine in Internationalizing Universities in China
3) Sabine Lauer (TU Dortmund Germany), Christian Johann Schmid (TU Dortmund Germany) Impacts on collegial exchange about teaching at German universities – Empirical evidence from a nationwide survey
1) Orlanda Tavares (A3ES Portugal), Cristina Sin (A3ES), Vasco Lança (A3ES) Birds of a feather flock together: inbreeding and research productivity in Portuguese higher education institutions
2) Giulio Marini (UCL UK), William Locke (UCL UK), Celia Whitchurch (UCL UK) Human Resource policies in UK universities and the agency of individuals
3) Andrey Lovakov (HSE Russia), Olga Alipova (HSE Russia), Lada Litvinova (HSE Russia), Maria Yudkevich (HSE Russia) Academic Inbreeding in Russia: Harmful, Beneficial, or Neutral? An analysis of three datasets
1) René Kooij (ISTAT - Institute for Applied Statistics Germany), Lars Müller (University of Kassel Germany) The Influence of HEI Practitioners on Survey Data
2) Emma Sabzalieva (University of Toronto, Canada), Magdalena Martinez (University of Toronto, Canada) How and Why International Research Collaboration Becomes Policy: A Cross-National Study
3) João Santos (ISCTE-IUL Portugal), Hugo Duarte Alves Horta The University of Hong Kong) What organizational factors influence the choice for potentially disruptive research agendas? An exploratory analysis focusing on the social sciences
1)Dominik Antonowicz (Nicolas Copernicus University Poland) Sisyphean work The reforms of university governance in Poland
2) Davide Donina (University of Bergamo Italy) New Public Management: Global reform scripts or conceptual stretching? Analysis of University Governance Structures in the Napoleonic Administrative Tradition
3) Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań Poland), Marek Kwiek (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań) Reforms stopped halfway through. Changing autonomy of the Polish universities (2007-2017)
Associate Professor, Nicolas Copernicus University
Dominik Antonowicz is an associate professor and the head of Sociology of Science Unit at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interest covers a wide range of issue related to higher education policy, reforming process and university governance and management. He... Read More →
Davide Donina is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of management, information and production engineering at the University of Bergamo, where he undertakes research on higher education policy and governance. His recent articles are published on Higher Education Policy... Read More →
I have been heavily involved in higher education research since about 2000, holding a UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy and directing the Center for Public Policy Studies in Poznan (since 2002). My new Routledge monograph has just been published: "Changing... Read More →
Agnieszka Anielska (Nicolas Copernicus University) The strategies of Polish higher education institutions toward lifelong learning
Kelun Lu (Peking University), Bai Yiping (Peking University), Wei Ha (Peking University) China’s scholarship in Higher education target the natural resources in Africa?
Rita Castro (University of Aveiro), Chiara Mio (University of Aveiro), Carlos Pinho (University of Aveiro) Sustainable approach of relationships concerning University-Business collaboration
Diana Dias (Universidade Europeia) Strangers in the University: Unforeseen students in Portuguese Higher Education
Sari Eriksson (University of Helsinki) Dynamics in policy borrowing and lending in higher education - case of Kyrgyzstan
Anastasia Kurysheva (Utrecht University & University Medical Center Utrecht) Assessing scientific evidence and transparency of selective admission criteria for Life Sciences Master's programs
Anika Meß (University of Kassel) The initiative of excellence and its influence on students. Analysis of a „consciousness of excellence“
Vitus Püttmann (University of Hannover) Organization and Governance of University-Firm-Collaborations – The Influence of Personal and Interpersonal Factors from a Transaction Cost Economics Perspective
Risto Rinne (University of Turku) The changing interconnections between Higher Education and society: The transformations in the case of Finnish university politics and doctrines
Katerina Guba (European University at St. Petersburg) Strategic responses to bureaucratic control: evidence from Russian universities
Diana da Silva Dias is an associate professor with habilitation at Universidade Europeia I Laureate International Universities and Senior Research Fellow at CIPES - Center for Research in Higher Education Policies. She is also a European Representative in Laureate Research Council... Read More →
PhD student, Utrecht University & University Medical Center Utrecht
Anastasia Kurysheva is a researcher in Higher Education. Her research deals with selective admissions to Master's programs: which admission criteria are evidence-based and what is the effect of different selective tools on diversity of student population. Anastasia's background is... Read More →
This panel gathers a group of authors that contributed to a recent publication that to the best of the proposer’s knowledge, is part of the first comprehensive effort to assess the development and current challenges for higher education research in Asia. Based on the analytical work of these authors to the publication, this panel offers a discussion about higher education research as a field of study in Asia, sharing their views about its higher education research communities, identifying common and dissimilar challenges and looking to contribute for a greater regional articulation of these national communities among themselves, and at the same time, the contribution that these communities can bring to the international higher education research.
1) Diana Dias (CIPES Portugal), Maria José Sá (CIPES, Portugal) The gap between desired and real students in higher education: Institutional strategies to manage first year students’ diversity
2) Giovanni Barbato (Università degli Studi di Milano Italy), Matteo Turri (Università degli Studi di Milano) Diversity and institutional positioning patterns: a complex relationship
3) Eva Bendix Petersen (Roskilde University Denmark), Christina Naike Runciman (Roskilde university) Collaborative learning in the diverse university: Masters students’ experiences and strategies
Diana da Silva Dias is an associate professor with habilitation at Universidade Europeia I Laureate International Universities and Senior Research Fellow at CIPES - Center for Research in Higher Education Policies. She is also a European Representative in Laureate Research Council... Read More →
1) Marie-Agnès Détourbe (INSA/LACES EA7437, France), Gaële Goastellec (University of Lausanne, France) Access to higher education and social stratification: A comparative study of refugee students’ pathways in Germany and England
2) Rosemary Bosu (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Gifty Dawson-Amoah (University of Cape Coast Ghana) Access to higher Education: A myth or reality for young girls
3) Burhan Fındıklı (University of Bergen, Norway), Alim Arlı (Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey) Institutional Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Turkey
4) Simona Torotcoi (Central European University, Hungary) Enhancing access within the European Higher Education Area: The role of student movements in shaping the national social dimension agenda
1) Venkat Bakthavatchaalam (University of Plymouth UK), Mike Miles (University of Plymouth UK), Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor (CIPES, University of Porto) The Influence of Rapidly Changing Higher Educational System on the Academics’ Research Productivity
2) Marek Kwiek (University of Poznan, Poland) Highly-Paid Academics: Productivity, Prestige and Income across Ten European Countries
3) Joseph Hermanowicz (University of Georgia USA), Kristen A. Clayton (Oglethorpe University USA) The Democratization of Academic Publishing
4) Wenqin Shen (Peking University China), Jin Jiang (Lingnan university, Hong Kong) International learning experience and academic productivity of Chinese PhD Returnees: Evidence form a national survey and Scopus Data
Venkat is a PhD student from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is currently a research intern at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, U.Porto, Portugal. His research interests include research productivity of academics, research methods and on research policies... Read More →
I have been heavily involved in higher education research since about 2000, holding a UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy and directing the Center for Public Policy Studies in Poznan (since 2002). My new Routledge monograph has just been published: "Changing... Read More →
1) Cláudia Sarrico (CIPES Portugal) The State of Play in Performance and Quality Management in Higher Education
2) Henna Juusola (University of Tampere Finland) Convention theoretical perspective on quality of education in the case of Finnish education export
3) Keiichi Yoshimoto (Kyushu University Japan), Yuki Inenaga (Tsukuba University) Tertiary Education and Qualifications Frameworks in Japan from Comparative Policy Learning
4) Mike Klassen (University of Toronto Canada), Creso Sa (University of Toronto) Do Global Norms Matter? The New Logics of Engineering Accreditation in Canadian Universities
PhD candidate in the Faculty of Management at University of Tampere. My research interests include quality of education,higher education policy and transnational higher education. Morespecifically, my PhD research is focusing on quality of higher educationin Finnish education export... Read More →
Mike is a PhD student in Higher Education at the University of Toronto. He studies the political, organization and institutional dynamics of professional accreditation in comparative context. His MA thesis focused on how interest groups shape changes to engineering accreditation policy... Read More →
junior reseacher, European University at Saint Petersburg
Angelika Tsivinskaya obtained her specialist degree in Software and Administration of Information Systems at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk (Russia). She worked there as a junior researcher and made studies in computer simulation and statistical software design... Read More →
Higher Education in Federal Countries is a unique study of higher education in nine federal countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China and India. In this book, leading international scholars discuss the role of federalism and how it shapes higher education in major nation-state actors on the world stage. The editors develop an overarching comparative analysis of the dynamics of central and regional power in higher education, and the national case studies explain how each federal and federal-like higher education system has evolved and how it functions in what are highly varied contexts.
1) Bai Yiping (Peking University, China), Chang-jun Yue (Peking University), Kelun Lu (Peking University, China) Relations Between Higher Education Structure and Industrial Structure in China - An Empirical Analysis based on National-scale Survey Data (2009-2017) of Chinese College Graduates
2) Jorrit Snijder (Utrecht University Netherlands) Bounded autonomy: debating excellence and steering in Dutch higher education
3) Paul O. Dipitso (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Exploring the implications of work-integrated learning for mining engineering training in traditional research universities; Case of South African universities
1) Asia Mironenko (European university at St. Petersburg, Russia), Ekaterina Dyachenko (HSE Russia) Academic leadership in the context of New managerialism: the relationship between rector’s background and the university performance
2) Eva Bendix Petersen (Roskilde University Denmark) Becoming a manager in Academia: an auto-ethnographic exploration
3) Alina Kolycheva (HSE Russia) Changing Identity of University Administrators and First Steps to Academic Management Professionalisation in Russia
I have been heavily involved in higher education research since about 2000, holding a UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy and directing the Center for Public Policy Studies in Poznan (since 2002). My new Routledge monograph has just been published: "Changing... Read More →
1) Wenqin Shen (Peking University China), Jaber Alruwaili (Jouf University, Saudi Arabia) Academia or Enterprises: Gender, research outputs, and employment among PhD graduates in China
2) Choni Floether (INCHER-Kassel Germany) Ph.D.-holders and the German labour market outside academia: diverse and attractive career paths as a growing challenge for academia?
3) Peter Bentley (Innovative Research Universities Australia) Academics in the online gig economy - An international comparative analysis of earnings on Upwork
Dr Peter Bentley is a Policy Adviser at the Innovative Research Universities and Honorary Fellow at the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management, The University of Melbourne. Peter is an expert on the academic profession and is the Editor-in-Chief of the... Read More →
1) Taru Siekkinen (University of Jyväskylä Finland), Terhi Nokkala (University of Jyväskylä), Jussi Välimaa (University of Jyväskylä), Jouni Helin (University of Jyväskylä) Facilitators and impediments of cross-sectoral knowledge transfer in Finland
2) Joy Nyondo (University of the Western Cape SAR) Drivers for the transition of African Universities from teaching-based to research-intensive universities: Documents and discourse analysis
3) Akira Arimoto (Hyogo University Japan) Differentiaiton and Integration of the Research, Teaching and Study in Higher Education: Trend of R-T-S nexus from and International Perspective
From spot market to tenured positions, there exist a variety of labor relations. From ephemeral to strongly integrated structures there also exist a variety of organizational forms. Building on paper written with Pierre François that explores how specific forms of labor relations fit with specific forms of organizations, I will argue that one characteristic of universities is to host different forms of labor relations and different organizational forms within the same organizational boundaries. In a last section, it will be shown that the relative share of each evolves along with the transformations of academic labor markets that will presented in the second part, and the consequences of theses trends will be addressed in the conclusion. Although based on rather theoretical perspectives, this contribution will rely on concrete examples and empirical studies in different countries.
1) Angelika Tsivinskaya (European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia) Design of evaluation measures of performance in higher education
2) Ekaterina Shibanova (NRU HSE Russia), Mikhail Lisyutkin (NRU HSE Russia), Daria Platonova (NRU HSE Russia), Tommaso Agasisti (Politecnico di Milano School of Management) Efficiency of the Universities Participating in Russian Excellence Initiative “Project 5-100”
3) Miguel Antonio Lim (University of Manchester UK) The Strength of Weak Expertise: The Times Higher Education and ‘New Experts’ in Knowledge Governance
4) Jelena Brankovic (Bielefeld University Germany) Competition in Higher Education: Myth and Reality
junior reseacher, European University at Saint Petersburg
Angelika Tsivinskaya obtained her specialist degree in Software and Administration of Information Systems at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk (Russia). She worked there as a junior researcher and made studies in computer simulation and statistical software design... Read More →
1) Gaoming Zheng (University of Tampere Finland), Yuzhuo Cai (University of Tampere) Using institutional Logics in Empirical Higher Education Studies: analytical frameworks and methodological implications
2) Stephen Hunt (UCL UK), Vikki Boliver (Durham University) Private Higher Education Providers in the UK
3) Jürgen Janger (WIFO Austria), Agnes Kügler (WIFO Austria) Differentiation and Integration in Higher Education Research in the EU: Findings from a representative large-scale survey
4) Emanuela Reale (CNR IRCRES Research Institute for sustainable economic growth Italy), Serena Fabrizio (CNR IRCRES), Lucio Morettini (CNR IRCRES) Participatory practices to produce impact in Social Science academic research
1) Maria Sá (CIPES, Portugal), Teresa Carvalho (University of Aveiro and CIPES, Portugal), Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor (A3ES and CIPES, Portugal) Student success in a fast-changing higher education environment
2) Igor Chirikov (HSE Russia), Prashant Loyalka (Stanford University, USA; HSE, Russia), Evgeniia Shmeleva(HSE Russia) The Role of Faculty in Reducing Academic Dishonesty among Students
3) Shweta Mishra (University of Kassel Germany) Social networks, social support and academic achievement in higher education: A systematic review
4) Elena Gorbunova (HSE Russia) Exploring factors of undergraduate student departure in Russian and the U.S. universities
1) Ksenia Romanenko (HSE, Russia) “To become an alumnus of unknown something”: Students in University Mergers
2) Predrag Lazetic (University of Surrey UK) Images and constructions of higher education students on university websites in Europe
3) Sandra Hasanefendic (Vrije University Amsterdam), Davide Donina (University of Bergamo) When organizational identity guides change: A case of Dutch university of applied sciences and the new research mandate
4) Oliver Vettori (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Austria), Johanna Warm (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Austria) Fractured image(s) – How universities construct themselves in their strategy documents
Davide Donina is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of management, information and production engineering at the University of Bergamo, where he undertakes research on higher education policy and governance. His recent articles are published on Higher Education Policy... Read More →
1) Sheng-Ju Chan (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) How international mobility influences academic collaboration? A Taiwanese Perspective
2) Jin Jin (The University of Hong Kong China), Hugo Horta (The University of Hong Kong) Postdoctoral systems, all the same? The case of China
3) Freek Van Deynze (Ghent University Belgium) Changing doctoral institutions; thirty years of Flemish doctoral education policy
4) Ivan Gruzdev (HSE Russia), Ziba Dzhafarova (HSE Russia), Evgeny Terentev (HSE Russia) Differentiation of PhD Students' Supervision and Its Effects at Leading Russian Universities
Diana Dias (CIPES & Universidade Europeia) Recycling skills or Reshaping Students: Higher education as a lever to a developmental change
Martine Schophuizen (Open University of The Netherlands), Karel Kreijns (Open University of The Netherlands), Marco Kalz (Open University of The Netherlands) Towards empirical analysis of educational innovations in organizations: An actor centred model based on the IAD framework
Elena Hauschildt (University of Kassel), Anika Meß (University of Kassel) Student Choices torn between Intuition and Rationality: Individualization Processes in a Differentiated Higher Education System
Christian Johann Schmid (TU Dortmund University), Sabine Lauer (TU Dortmund University) Why (not)? German academics’ (un)likely motivation to teach in continuing higher education
Giulio Marini (University College London) Academic Freedom in a Globalising Era: the Intangible Asset of Higher Education
Maria Mavlikeeva (University of Kassel), Igor Asanov (University of Kassel) Is Self-employment a Career Trap? Large-Scale Field Experiment in the Labor Market
Fanette Merlin (CEREQ), Mora Virginie (CEREQ) Leaving university without a diploma : who will get opportunities anyway?
Svetlana Poleschuk (European University Institute) Academic Careers In A Quickly Changing World: Biographies Of Academics Who Stayed Or Left Belarus After The Year 1991
Maria Sá (University of Porto), Teresa Carvalho (University of Aveiro), Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor (CIPES) Students' academic experience in a changing higher education environment. A portrait from Portugal
Diana da Silva Dias is an associate professor with habilitation at Universidade Europeia I Laureate International Universities and Senior Research Fellow at CIPES - Center for Research in Higher Education Policies. She is also a European Representative in Laureate Research Council... Read More →
1) Aleksei Egorov (HSE, Russia), Daria Zinchenko (HSE, Russia), Oleg Leshukov (HSE, Russia) Does the efficiency of higher education institutions matter for regional economic development? Evidence from Russia
2) Angelika Tsivinskaya (European University at Saint Petersburg Russia), Mikhail Sokolov (European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia) Russian “Monitoring of Efficiency of Educational Organisations”: a statistical evaluation of validity
3) Krzysztof Opolski (University of Warsaw Poland), Marcin Dwórznik (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland) Higher education efficiency and quality
junior reseacher, European University at Saint Petersburg
Angelika Tsivinskaya obtained her specialist degree in Software and Administration of Information Systems at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk (Russia). She worked there as a junior researcher and made studies in computer simulation and statistical software design... Read More →
1) Hugo Figueiredo (CIPES, University of Aveiro, Portugal), Victor Rudakov (HSE, Russia), Ricardo Biscaia (CIPES and Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal), Sergey Roshchin (HSE, Russia), Pedro N. Teixeira (CIPES, University of Porto, Portugal) The Dark Side of STEM? The Extent and Impact of Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia and Portugal by Field of Study
2) Georgiana Mihut (Boston College United States) The effect of university prestige in the labor market. Results from a field experiment of the labor market in the United Kingdom
3) Adel Pasztor (Newcastle University UK) Who goes where and why? Higher education choices and graduate destinations of ethnic minority Hungarians in Slovakia
1) Otto Hüther (INCHER-Kassel Germany), Georg Krücken (University of Kassel) Changing Organizational Structures of Universities: What Role Do Intended and Unintended Reform Consequences Play?
2) Jonas Krog Lind (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Towards complete organizations? Changing authority relations in the Danish university sector from 1970 to the present
3) Krzysztof Czarnecki (Poznań University of Economics and Business Poland) The political causes of student finance systems – comparative social policy approach
1) Torger Möller (DZHW Germany), Laura Behrmann (DZHW Germany), Thorben Sembritzki (DZHW Germany) International shift in public research funding – Why is research at universities becoming more important?
2) Bela Talovskaya (HSE Russia), Mikhail Lisyutkin (HSE Russia) Changing Resource Differentiation of the Russian Universities
3) Antonio Zinilli (National Research Council in Italy Italy), Emanuela Reale (National Research Council in Italy) Reliability and transparency of ex-ante evaluation in academic project funding: the case of PRIN
1) Anna Pokorska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland), Dominik Antonowicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) Gender imbalance in senior executive positions in Polish higher education
2) Victor Rudakov (HSE Russia), Ilya Prakhov(HSE Russia) Gender wage gap in the Russian Academia
3) Clancy Patrick (University College Dublin, Ireland), Sara O'Sullivan (University College Dublin) Exploring Trends in Gender Parity in Participation in Higher Education Enrolments 1971-2015
Associate Professor, Nicolas Copernicus University
Dominik Antonowicz is an associate professor and the head of Sociology of Science Unit at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interest covers a wide range of issue related to higher education policy, reforming process and university governance and management. He... Read More →
2) Lukas Bischof (HSE, Russia / Lukas Bischof Hochschulberatung ) The more something changes..." - persistence and change in the governance of higher education systems in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Moldova
3) Anna Smolentseva (HSE, Russia), Daria Platonova (HSE, Russia) Institutional dynamics in higher education in 15 post-Soviet countries: a comparative analysis
1) Christina Haas (University of Luxembourg Luxembourg) Same same, but different? Unequal student pathways in German higher education
2) Carole Probst (Zurich University of Applied Sciences Switzerland), Christian Wassmer (Zurich University of Applied Sciences Switzerland) Where do they come from and where do they go? Students' pathways in a binary higher education system
3) Tatiana Chirkina (HSE Russia), Tatiana Khavenson (HSE Russia) The Role of Socio-Economic Status and Academic Performance in Students' Educational Trajectory in Russia
1) Alice Civera (University of Bergamo Italy), Davide Donina (University of Bergamo), Michele Meoli (University of Bergamo), Silvio Vismara (University of Bergamo) Fostering the creation of academic spinoffs: Does the international mobility of the academic leader matter?
2) Sheng-Ju Chan (National Chung Cheng University Taiwan) Recruiting Students from Southeast Asia: Changing Taiwanese Political Economy
3) Cristina Sin (A3ES Portugal), Orlanda Tavares (A3ES Portugal), Sónia Cardoso (A3ES Portugal) Portuguese institutions’ strategies and challenges to attract international students: external makeover or internal transformation?
Alice Civera is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergamo, Department of management, information and production engineering and at the University of Pavia, Department of Management and Economics. Her research interests are academic entrepreneurship, especially spinoffs' activity... Read More →
Davide Donina is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of management, information and production engineering at the University of Bergamo, where he undertakes research on higher education policy and governance. His recent articles are published on Higher Education Policy... Read More →
In 1991, the Soviet model of higher education in 15 republics of the USSR, with its 5.1 million students and 946 higher education institutions,started 15 independent journeys. All post-Soviet systems shared the legacies of the single Soviet approach to higher education provision. Despite these commonalities, the sociocultural and economic disparities across the republics were remarkable: for example, in the structure of the economy, the cultural and ethnic diversity and demographic trends, as well as the number of higher education institutions, the number of students and higher education participation rates.
After gaining their independence, all new countries faced similar challenges. The similarities and differences between the national contexts, together with the challenges of the independence period, created a unique constellation of political, economic, sociocultural and demographic conditions in each country. All of the transformations have dramatically affected individuals, social groups and institutions of post-Soviet societies, including higher education. All have had to adapt to their rapidly changing environments. That has eventually resulted in a range of changes in the structure of national higher education systems and in — what we term — their institutional landscapes, the overall institutional composition of the higher education system.
1) Sara Diogo (University of Aveiro Portugal), Teresa Carvalho (University of Aveiro) What am I doing here? Reasons to enroll in a PhD and pursuit an academic career
2) Gaoming Zheng (University of Tampere Finland) Decomposing doctoral student socialization from institutional logics perspective: A qualitative study of Chinese doctoral students with external funding in Finland
3) Saule Bekova (HSE Russia), Natalia Maloshonok (HSE Russia) Determinants of Departmental Climate Perception by Doctoral Students: the case of Highly Selective Russian Universities
1) Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela (CIAE, Universidad de Chile Chile) Mass media and tuition fees in Chile: rival discourses
2) Victoria Ballerini (New York University USA) America’s Promise and Argentina’s Unrestricted Access: A Comparative Analysis of Equity Implications of Tuition-Free and Open-Access Models in Higher Education
3) Alice Civera (University of Bergamo Italy), Mattia Cattaneo (University of Bergamo), Michele Meoli (University of Bergamo), Stefano Paleari (University of Bergamo) Analysing the policies to increase graduate population: Do tuition fees matter?
Alice Civera is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergamo, Department of management, information and production engineering and at the University of Pavia, Department of Management and Economics. Her research interests are academic entrepreneurship, especially spinoffs' activity... Read More →
1) Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań Poland) Collegiality and the common as the condition of living autonomy of the university departments in Poland
2) Yann Lebeau (University of East Anglia UK), Jaber Alruwaili (Jouf University, Saudi Arabia) Convergence and local orders in public university governance and management. A case study of “new” university in Saudi Arabia
3) Susan Harris-Huemmert (German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer Germany) Constructing, managing and changing higher education estate: trends, constants, and imperatives
Davide Donina is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of management, information and production engineering at the University of Bergamo, where he undertakes research on higher education policy and governance. His recent articles are published on Higher Education Policy... Read More →
