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This seminar draws on Rille Raaper's forthcoming book ‘Student Identity and Political Agency: Activism, Representation and Consumer Rights’ (due 2023, by Routledge). This paper starts by exploring what does it mean to be a student in today’s marketised higher education and argues that the homogenising notion of the student-as-consumer has become prevalent in today’s higher education. Rapper argues that the student-as-consumer...
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This paper will draw on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree-level study has become increasingly similar across Europe – because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area – it will show how such timescapes differ in important ways, largely by nation. These differences are then explained in terms of: the distinctive traditions of higher education still...
Studies on academic recruitment processes have demonstrated that universities evaluate candidates for research positions using multiple criteria. However, most studies on preferences regarding evaluative criteria in recruitment processes focus on a single country, while cross-country studies are rare. Similarly, we know only very little about perceived barriers to hiring the preferred candidates. While studies have documented how fields evaluate candidates differently, those differences have not been deeply explored, thus creating a need for further inquiry. This paper aims to address...
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Goldman Room
Talk by VANESSA DEBIAIS-SAINTON, Head of the Unit in charge of Higher Education policies and programme at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
With the changing landscapes of higher education the conditions of academic work continue to evolve across the world. This seminar brings together a panel of foremost scholars of the academic profession to address the questions of changing academic career structures, academics’ involvement in higher education...
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Students have for centuries organized into a variety of representative institutions - unions, guilds, councils - which defend and represent their collective interests. Today, student unions are distinct political institutions which function in every higher education system. Institution-based student unions associate into national unions and these further associate into regional student union federations. Student unions are the single most important mechanism of student impact on higher education. While organizational models of student unions and modes of student representation...
Universities: Past, Present, and Future Webinar Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
Drawing on the insights from the International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions, this panel will address key trends in contemporary higher education research in...