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Peer review in an Era of Evaluation : Understanding the Practice of Gatekeepi…
This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contribut…
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- 9783030752637
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- 412 p ; ill
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- 001.4 PEE E
Technical universities : past, present and future
This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and di…
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- 9783030505554
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- viii, 242p. : ill.
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- 378 TEC t
Reforms, organizational change and performance in higher education : a compar…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes wit…
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- 9783030117382
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- xx, 326p. : ill.
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- 320.6 REF r
The responsible university : exploring the Nordic context and beyond
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities and other types of higher education institutions face increasing scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this phen…
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- 9783030256463
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- xvii, 318p. : ill.
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- 378.00948 RES r
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