Higher education (HE), more than most other goods or services, can be provided either by the public sector or the market. It can be also paid for either by the State (the taxpayers or lenders) or by private interests (individuals, business or other private sources, e.g. foundations). This flexibility is …
Dix-neuf mois pour créer l’Universite du Luxembourg
in Université du Luxembourg, 2003-2013
Universities, hard and soft sciences: all key pillars of global sustainability (2012)
View PostInternational Experience for Assessing the Quality of Educational Services at Higher Education Institutions: A Policy Note for the Government of Poland (2010)
Policy Note prepared at the request of the World Bank
The Next decade, a Challenge for technological and societal Innovations (2010)
About 25 years ago, the world entered a period that we can call … a revolution, which is rooted in political and economic, as well as scientific and technological forces. This revolution has brought increasing prosperity to the developed world and allowed many other countries not only to take off, …
Competition and Cooperation (Harvard International Review)
The Need for a Dual Approach by Luc Weber Global Education, Vol. 30 (3) – Fall 2008 Issue Imagine for an instant that you are the president or rector of a research university in North America or Western Europe. You are well aware that the world of today is increasingly …
If you Believe you are Good, try Institutional Evaluation (2008)
in (pp. 259-268) Amaral & Co, Essays on Supportive Peer Review
The Responsibility of Universities to promote a sustainable Society (2008)
Since the 1950s, Europe has been engaged in an ambitious political and economic integration process which received a new boost with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1999 and, soon afterwards, the collapse of the communist USSR. Twenty-five countries now make up the enlarged European Union, soon to be …
Higher Education and Democratic Culture: Preamble (2007)
in (pp. 28-38) Huber & Harkavy (eds) Higher Education and democratic culture: citizenship, human rights and civic responsibility, Council of Europe higher education series No. 8, Strasbourg
Quality assurance in European higher education: from adolescence to maturity (2007)
in (pp. 17-30) Weber & Dolgova-Dreyer (eds) The legitimacy of quality assurnce in higher education, Council of Europe higher education series No. 9, Strasbourg
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM ADOLESCENCE TO MATURITY (2007)
On the background of the premises and environment described in the preface of this book, the objective of this paper is to contribute to the critical assessment of the progress made over the last quarter of a century in quality assurance – used here as a generic term – in …
European Strategy to promote the Knowledge Society as a Source of renewed economic Dynamism and of social Cohesion (2006)
Since the l950s, Europe has been engaged in an ambitious political and eonomic integration process which received a new boost with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1999 and, soon afterwards, the collapse of the communist USSR. Twenty-five countries now make up the enlarged European Union, soon to be …
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE IN URGENT NEED OF CHANGE (2006)
In this contribution based on the opening address at the conference as vice-chair of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR),I want to focus upon what seems to me one, if not the, most important challenge for the future of European higher education and research, and hence for …
NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH? (2005)
At first sight, the topic “public responsibility for higher education and research” might appear a theoretical question of the kind typically cherished by academic thinkers, but without any practical relevance. But I shall argue that, on the contrary, the question is of increasing practical importance for the effectiveness of the …
REINVENTING THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SECTOR: THE CHALLENGE FOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES (2004)
The European higher education and research sector, as well as the European research universities, are facing issues and challenges that are sometimes different in magnitudc and more often quite different in nature from those in North America. In any case, the continuous transformation of the European higher education and research …
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