The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research: Experiences and Perspectives

by Ulrich Teichler and Stefanie Schwarz

Book Overview

In the US, the university administration runs its own office of "insti- tional research" in order to base its decisions on systematic information. Furthermore, higher education research can rely on a relatively stable academic basis if study programmes on higher education exist. Again, this is most frequently the case in the United States. Finally, governments and other macro-societal actors sometimes have their own offices or institutes of policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792366131
• ISBN13: 9780792366133
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"