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Nicole Philippczyck; Jan Grundmann; Simon Oertel – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
We analyze the role of institutional founding conditions and institutional legacy for universities' self-representation in terms of diversity. Based on 374 universities located in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland, we can differentiate between a more idealistic understanding (logic of inclusion and equality) and a…
Descriptors: Diversity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment
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Blanchard, Hervé; Coléno, Yves-Patrick – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
In France, syllabuses and teachings of economics have changed a lot in first degrees and at the high school as well since their creation. Wondering whether this imperceptible transformation does not lead finally the subject towards a regression as for its ambitions, by impoverishing it, we analyse these evolutions. Concentrating our work on the…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Lexicology, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Karsten, Sjoerd; Visscher, Adrie; De Jong, Tim – Comparative Education, 2001
Publication of school rankings based on raw data for various performance indicators was found to influence school choice and mobility strategies for elite and middle-class parents in England and France. Rather than promoting school improvement, publication led to unintended school coping strategies, such as marketing activities, student exclusion…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Bowen, Sarah – Rural Sociology, 2010
Geographical indications (GIs) are place-based names that convey the geographical origin, as well as the cultural and historical identity, of agricultural products. GIs are unique, in that they provide a means of ensuring that control over production and sales of a product stays within a local area, but at the same time they make use of extralocal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Agriculture