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Direct linkKvilhaugsvik, Hanne – Higher Education Policy, 2022
Quality assurance (QA) has become an important feature in higher education governance in Europe, with policies for increased harmonization and periodic accreditations as pillars. Still, the shift to emphasize quality development and enhancement entails that QA systems can attend to a wider range of considerations than before. This article studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Kascak, Ondrej; Koch, Anette Boye – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Europe is often characterized as being divided into four blocks of countries with their own distinct cultural, historical, political, and economic characteristics. The geopolitical diversity within the EU is also recognized in a wide variety of different traditions for ECEC and upbringing of children. Nowadays, new reforms and policy initiatives…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Download full textTan, Justina; Sim, Joel – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
This study is part of a larger research study that seeks to understand how employee-driven innovation (EDI) is initiated, enacted and sustained in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. To date, most of the EDI studies are conducted in the Nordic context where management, employees and public authorities work closely with each other. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Small Businesses, Innovation
Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the COVID-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Bers, Marina Umaschi – European Journal of STEM Education, 2018
In recent years, there has been an increased effort to introduce coding and computational thinking in early childhood education. In accordance with the international trend, programming has become an increasingly growing focus in European education. With over 9.5 million iPhone Operating System (iOS) downloads, ScratchJr is the most popular freely…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Early Childhood Education, Programming, Telecommunications
Pinheiro, Rómulo; Nordstrand Berg, Laila – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
Multi-campus universities are not a new phenomenon per se, but they have become an increasing feature of contemporary higher education systems all over the world. In the case of Northern Europe, multi-campus universities are the consequence of contraction patterns resulting from overcapacity, fragmentation and rising competition. This paper has…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Universities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Huvila, Isto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2019
Introduction: This study investigates the implications of the interplay of multiple information infrastructures to learning and conducting work and to its related information work practices, and how the materialities of work and its infrastructures play into their intermingling. Method: The present study is based on an ethnography of a week-long…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Archaeology, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Roosmaa, Eve-Liis; Saar, Ellu – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This article explores cross-national differences in the intensity of perceived barriers to adult learning in Europe focusing on the barriers recognised by those not participating and having no intention to do so. This relatively large subgroup has received scant scholarly attention, yet exploring their participation barriers is critical for…
Descriptors: Barriers, Cross Cultural Studies, Adult Education, Participation
Klemencic, Manja – Higher Education Forum, 2016
Intergovernmental regional cooperation is one of the defining characteristics of political Europe. This article investigates it in the area of higher education and research. Specifically it explores what types of intergovernmental regional alliances exist and to what extent their member countries coordinate their higher education and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agency Cooperation, International Cooperation, Regional Cooperation
Manninen, Jyri – International Review of Education, 2017
Non-formal, non-vocational adult education (NFNVAE) is a low-cost, low-threshold learning activity that generates many benefits for individuals and society, and it should play a more central role in educational policy. NFNVAE's challenge is that it lacks clear concepts and definitions and is, therefore, less systematically covered in statistics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Nonformal Education, Educational Policy
Social Cohesion and the Labour Market: Societal Regimes of Civic Attitudes and Labour Market Regimes
Dimeglio, Isabelle; Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mehaut, Philippe – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to test the connections between the indicators used in the literature on social cohesion, which usually reflect "general" values or behaviours, and indicators specific to a particular space, namely the labour market. A key question is the stability of the social cohesion's indicators when moving from a societal…
Descriptors: Homogeneous Grouping, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Correlation
Peer reviewedKernochan, Adelaide – Social Education, 1989
Describes the efforts of educators throughout the world to teach about the United Nations. Each of the different world regions focuses on specific UN principles and work related to their own national priorities. Examples are from the Caribbean Islands, Eastern Europe, France, the Philippines, Africa, and the Nordic Countries. (KO)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Borg, Carmel; Mayo, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
In this article, the authors define some of the most evident features of globalisation from below, which they distinguish from hegemonic globalisation, and draw out its implications for adult education. They draw out the implications for European adult education that emerge from the different features of these two types of globalisations. They…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Lifelong Learning
Chinapah, Vinayagum, Ed. – 1992
This publication presents speeches, papers and discussion from a seminar on higher education in Europe, particularly in the Nordic counties of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, as well as Eastern European countries. Following an introduction the opening speech by Alexander Sannikov, the UNESCO Secretariat, is reproduced. Part I contains papers…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Evaluation Criteria
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
The expansion of compulsory schooling after the Second World War represented an important reform common to the majority of European countries. Specifically, over the period 1950-2000, the fifteen Western European countries considered in this study have extended the school-leaving age by one year or longer. Interestingly, this change in legislation…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis, Influences
