Hohe Standards in Forschung und Lehre zu sichern, ist die vornehmste Aufgabe der Hochschulen. Die Sicherung der Qualität erfolgt nicht mehr nur mit dem traditionellen Instrument einer verantwortlichen Berufungspolitik von Professoren. Zunehmend werden neue Instrumentarien entwickelt, die...

Interest in evaluating higher education is growing in OECD countries today. This report focuses on evaluation as an essential element of an institutions decision-making processes aimed at improving the quality of activities. It reviews higher education evaluation in France, Germany and Spain -...

"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to...