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Teixeira, Pedro N.; Silva, Pedro Luís; Biscaia, Ricardo; Sá, Carla – European Journal of Education, 2022
In recent decades, higher education has experienced a massive expansion worldwide, which has often been linked to increasing higher education diversification. New sectors and new types of institutions emerged with this massification process to offer more diversified types of advanced training. At the same time, this expansion was often embedded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Political Influences, Neoliberalism
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Hauptman Komotar, Maruša – European Journal of Education, 2019
Global university rankings are a worldwide trend that emerged in times of the globalisation and internationalisation of higher education. Universities worldwide are now striving to become "world-class" institutions and are constantly aiming to improve their ranking position. Global rankings of universities are thus perceived by many as…
Descriptors: Universities, Global Approach, Reputation, International Education
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Sanchez-Gelabert, Albert; Figueroa, Mijail; Elias, Marina – European Journal of Education, 2017
An analysis of the phenomenon of combining work and study amongst university students is made using data obtained from surveys of graduates carried out four years after finishing their degrees. First, the article reviews the evolution of the phenomenon over the last ten years, taking into account the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Statistical Analysis, Sampling
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Román-Martínez, Isabel; Gómez-Miranda, María-Elena; Sánchez-Fernández, Juan – European Journal of Education, 2017
The backbone of the European innovation strategy is knowledge transfer from universities to companies, the programmes supporting the creation of university spin-offs being one of its pillars. In order to achieve a better understanding of this kind of entrepreneurial activity in Spain, this article analyses the relationship between research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, School Business Relationship
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Sweetman, Rachel – European Journal of Education, 2017
Learning outcomes are presented as a tool that can enhance teaching and learning in higher education, in particular by fostering student-centred learning. However, the ways in which this change can and should take place and the specific kinds of enhancement involved are often unclear. This article analyses common claims about the advantages of…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Michelsen, Svein; Vabø, Agnete; Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne; Kvam, Endre – European Journal of Education, 2017
This article highlights the significance of professional and disciplinary spaces in the shaping of Learning Outcomes (Los) in higher education. It is based on empirical studies of three programmes (engineering, the humanities and medicine) at two Norwegian universities. The results demonstrate both similarities and differences in the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Engineering Education