Higher Education in a Globalising World: International by Oliver Fulton Jürgen Enders

By Oliver Fulton Jürgen Enders

This Festschrift is devoted to Ulrich Teichler who's celebrating his 60th delivery­ day in 2002. Ulrich Teichler has been a valuable actor within the improvement of the sector of study on better schooling in Germany, Europe and past. not just has he devoted his specialist profession to learning various larger schooling themes via nationwide and overseas examine initiatives. He was once additionally within the fore­ entrance of the efforts to reinforce the constitution and profile of upper schooling re­ seek, for instance, via his involvement within the institution of the Consortium of upper schooling Researchers (CHER). furthermore, he has contributed to many vital scholarly works reflecting at the cutting-edge and the character of the sphere. the traditional knowledge is that operating in a school or university makes you a professional on better schooling. hence, whereas teachers love to do study on each attainable subject, they're mostly reluctant to check their very own social insti­ tution. in the ecu context Ulrich Teichler is without doubt one of the major exceptions to this rule. Already in his pupil days he has acknowledged the original features of upper schooling associations and structures, and he understood that targeted efforts are had to increase our wisdom on larger education.

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After all, if we were not moving to a similar condition, we would not be able to use common terms. Again, let me suggest this is a false assumption. It is no less of a false assumption to believe that, because the meaning implicit in the term as originally used is taken up elsewhere, other systems - or countries - ipso facto endorse the implicit model or ways of dealing with things that we, the original possessors of the lingua now become franca, have laid upon it. Finally, and it is another way of reiterating what has just been said, but from a slightly different angle, language is normative.

Etatisation also went hand in hand with the transfer of a number of other functions and conditions. The central purpose behind this transfer from the institution to national oversight was to ensure that the responsibility of the academic estate was inseparably bound up with the national interest. This protracted process of incorporation also accounts for the very different profile of power and authority which these systems displayed, when set against both Britain and the United States in Clark's famous - or infamous - triangle of coordination (Clark, 1983).

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