Gliederung: I. Der Befund - Ueberfuellung der Hochschulen II. Ursachen der Fehlentwicklung III. Ordnungspolitische Leitbilder fuer die Hochschulpolitik (1. Hochschulen als staatliche Einrichtungen 2. Hochschulen als private Unternehmen 3. Staatliche Hochschulen mit Wettbewerb) IV. Warnung vor...

Far-reaching transformations in Swiss education were pushed in the last decade by two prominent international initiatives, namely the 1999 Bologna process and the OECD's PISA study starting in 2000. To what extent and in which way were these soft governance initiatives able to trigger Swiss...

In this paper we examine the Chinese domestic discourse centering on Shanghai's participation in the PISA study and interpretations of the 2009 results. The main focus is to examine why local education authority took part in the PISA project and how actors from the education authority use PISA...