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21-August-2001
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Reviews of quality initiatives in higher education have become a regular part of academic life throughout the western world. The University of Western Sydney Nepean (UWS Nepean) has agreed to participate in the project organised by the Organisat...
21-August-2001
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This study will begin with an overview of how education is structured and organised under the Belgian constitution. It will then give a brief description of the legal framework in which the universities conduct their mission, in order to show the...
21-August-2001
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In accordance with its Statute, Ca' Foscari University has as its aim cultural and scientific development and the propagation of knowledge through research and teaching. The University's area of activity is not only local, but national and intern...
21-August-2001
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Cardiff is one of Britain's major universities, with its own Royal Charter and a history of service and achievement dating back to 1883. Its international reputation attracts staff and students from throughout the UK and from the rest of the worl...
21-August-2001
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The University was formed as Sheffield Polytechnic through the merger of three Colleges of Art and Design, Commerce and Technology. Further mergers with three Teacher Training Colleges during the 1970s involved a name change, to Sheffield City Po...
21-August-2001
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Major changes were made to the UK higher education system in 1992. The previous binary division between the universities and the polytechnics and other colleges was ended and a unitary system of higher education established for the first time. Th...
21-August-2001
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Comparative studies in higher education are playing an ever more important role in the growing internationalisation of this sector. These comparative studies relate to all aspects of higher education, on the institutional as well as on the system...
21-August-2001
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The present college grew out of the Reformed College of Debrecen, one of the oldest educational institution in Hungary. The first book published on the goals of teacher training dates back to 1538. In the course of history different principles do...
21-August-2001
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The Université Louis Pasteur comprises 17 separate institutional components (i.e. schools, education/training and research units, an 'observatory' and various institutes), in which some 18 000 students are enrolled. Its human resources consist o...
21-August-2001
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In 1959, the University of Oulu, one of Finland's 20 universities, was created 600 km north of Helsinki, the beginning of regional higher education in Finland. Today, its five faculties -- Education, Humanities, Medicine, Science and Technology -...
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