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budgets and higher education. Drawing on recent research in political science and political economy, we conceptualize declining state appropriations to higher education in Republican-dominated U.S. states ... state-level data we found that political partisanship conditioned state appropriations to higher education during and after the Great Recession. Our finding that the balance wheel operated differently in
into research on the consequences of political reforms (in German: Reformfolgeforschung). Why quality assurance is defined can be best explained for the case of accreditation: First, accreditation ... political decision to accredit the study programs offered by HEIs in Germany was taken sometime in 1998. This decision was politically supported and justified with reference to the Bologna Process, in which
aspects of contemporary society. Set against the broader political economy context, this Special Issue focuses on examining the impacts of the present global health crisis on higher education development ... context of the broader political and economic context following the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, this article sets out to critically examine how this unprecedented global health crisis has affected
underpinning philosophy of CDA, because explanatory critique is critical in uncovering the generative causal mechanisms of social phenomena, i.e., the “real” domain of critical realism. Another challenge with ... Action Plan can offer a more complete picture of BRI higher education. Finally, the New Era Education Plan has been added for three reasons. First, as a meta-narrative and political guideline, it has
internationalization often gets swept up and associated with the discourse of globalization (Knight, 2004) and the notion of knowledge economy, both of which have gained in economic and political importance ... America’s ignorance of the world is now a national liability” (NAFSA, 2003, iv) . While the term internationalization had been used for decades in economics, political science, and governmental relations
. ISR can be viewed as a HEI policy that requires careful consideration of national policies and political environments (Sá and Sabzalieva, 2018) . El Masri and Sabzalieva (2020) argue that institutions ... international student recruiters are the lack of consistent messaging and interpretation between border agents, immigration officials, and political leaders. The inconsistent interpretations of essential travel
we accept the point made by the various writers noted earlier, that physical, Euclidean, forms embody social knowledge and political objectives, then it follows that physical planning, by providing ... political dimension, not simply a social one: a society’s political norms set the framework for many other types of action. The means available for moving from one space, one built environment location, to
insights into the political factors which encourage and perpetuate government non-action. In his well-known critique of pluralism, Schattschneider (1960) argued that governments can have ‘a bias in favour ... concerns to the political arena, and some people may not have appropriate skills or training, while some are conflict averse. Attwell et al. (2021 ) apply similar reasoning in their analysis of the Italian
and complex societal problems will invariably require some active engagement by university management, not necessarily in the research process itself. In light of extended political expectations placed ... Resistance in the Workplace and the Construction of a New Political Structure of Organizations' , in D. Courpasson, D. Golsorkhi and J.J . Sallaz (eds.) Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and
important in terms of increasing private gains, enhancing efficiency and productivity, transferring technology, generating innovation and consolidating political institutions. The role of higher education in ... is largely due to the fact that the existing offer of this modality in private institutions is restricted to specific courses. In part, this restriction is due to the political influence of
; PHIL, Philosophy; CST, Computer Systems Technology; COMP, Computer Science; JOMC, Journalism and Mass Communications; MEEN, Mechanical Engineering; CRJS, Criminal Justice; FCS, Family and Consumer
aims to explore how HEIs responded to the COVID-19 crisis within their specific social and political contexts by examining official online communications and community updates released from a sample of ... varying stages of the crises? and (2) How do HEIs’ communications and responses compare both across the social and political environments of three countries, and across institutional types within those
regarding visa delays and refusals and a ‘turbulent political and social environment’, and a significant decline in international students’ interest, regarding studying in the US (Wan 2021; WENR 2020; Martel ... economic and political relations, including the arrest of an Australian academic, and later, a prominent Australian journalist in China in early 2021, were part of the wider picture (Albert 2021) . The
university governance, Robertson’s paper shows the anticipatory practices mobilise different kinds of socio-temporal and political sensibilities and expectations, practices, and institutional arrangements
object. This technical reasoning focuses on the reliability of information to make accurate decisions. However, other reasons of a social or political nature could be decisive for public authorities ... economic analysis, more sustainable. Although HEIs need not generate large profits, long gone are the days when governments tolerated large deficits and unbalanced accounts. Social and political debates
must develop the traditional philosophy of French national understanding as defined by Jules Michelet, Maurice Barrès, and Ernst Renan, three thinkers credited with developing the specifically French ... Michelet is a key figure for this philosophy, and he argues that French history begins with the formalization of the French language. As he notes in his History of France, “The history of France begins with
. Some declines are merely transitory. Short of actual decline, the slowing of private growth rates is also notable. After citing historical examples, we focus on contemporary social and political causes ... : diminution of social distinctiveness or groups that have fuelled private growth; demographic changes that fall hard on private sectors. The political causes analysed are three: government policy, ranging from
in part by efforts to improve student completion and success rates at university, and underpinned by a pedagogic philosophy based on social constructivism, the student engagement movement has its roots ... become so pervasive, its related socio-political and institutional drivers, as well as its contested meanings at the level of practice. Peter Kahn uses a critical realist lens as a basis to interrogate
valuable construct for management research ? International Journal of Management Reviews 23 ( 1 ): 7 - 44 Jabareen , Y. ( 2009 ) Building a conceptual framework: philosophy, definitions, and procedure
criteria defined the number of commissioners per conglomerate (i.e. size or number of associated institutions). The composition of commissioners was the result of a political negotiation (Geoffroy Pitta ... Derecho , 6 ( 1 ): 43 - 78 . https://doi.org/10.5354/ 0719 - 5885 . 2019 . 53745 . Beerkens , M. ( 2015 ) ' Quality assurance in the political context: in the midst of different expectations and conflicting