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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …
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Spanish university system during the eighties and nineties, has been currently reversed because of drastic reductions of …
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The Entrepreneurial University is a failed idea. This is not to disparage the entrepreneurial activities of faculty …, graduates and students. Neither is it to criticise industry sponsored research and co-authorship. University research and higher … commons essential to the university's continued existence. A systematic critique of the concept of the Entrepreneurial …
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This study investigates how postdoc training affects scientists’ academic employment. Based on questionnaire responses from a national representative sample of academic scientists and engineers and the respondents’ curriculum vitae, the results suggest that postdoc training increases...
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This paper examines academic earmarks and its role in the funding of university research. It provides a summary and … review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for …
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This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...
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Traditionally, the university is understood to be a custodian/depositary of common values, knowledge and inheritance of … of the university consists of the fact that it coagulates individuals who interact in one-of-a-kind manner with this …, judging the university's performance, which these days focuses chiefly on measurable, quantitative, scientometric indicators …
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An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
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university outputs and in the thorough peer-group selection process that accounts for high diversity in subject profiles. More …
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. “Harvard University” is the best performing institution (in all years) followed by many other institutions from Northern …
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