Browsing Programs Multimedia by Subject "International and Comparative"
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Changes in Doctoral Education Worldwide
(2008-02-11)Maresi Nerad will present a synthesis of her forthcoming book, Toward a Global PhD? Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide (University of Washington Press, April 2008), and her ongoing research on this topic. In ... -
The Changing Influence of Social Background and Academic Ability on College Aspirations
(2007-10-16)Petr Mateju will share results from his recent work on educational aspirations among students in Eastern European countries. In particular, he will analyze how socioeconomic status and academic ability affect students? ... -
China's Higher Education on an Overpass of Four-Fold Transitions
(2007-04-30)Through an analysis of graduate employment and the decline of quality and equity following dramatic enrollment expansion, Professor Wang of the University of Zhejiang will discuss the deep-seated conflicts facing higher ... -
The Commonwealth of Universities
(2009-03-13)Professor Martial Staub will present a discussion about how and why medieval intellectuals created universities and what higher education and democratic societies today can learn from those efforts. Beginning with ... -
A Comparative Look at Stratification and Inequality in U.S. Higher Education
(2007-04-25)Higher education in the has expanded dramatically into a diverse system, including a strong vocational component. Yet students from more privileged families continue to have an advantage in gaining access to and persisting ... -
Cross-national Trends in Teacher Work Roles and Working Conditions
(2009-03-02)With the growing attention to curricular standardization, especially in math and science, and equitable conditions that promote learning for all students, most research has continued to focus on instructional practice ... -
Enter the Dragon? China's Higher Education Returns to the World Community: The Case of Peking University
(2009-04-20)In the coming decade, Peking University aims to achieve world-class status as an international research institution. However, the institution has encountered a fundamental issue: successful adaptation of the European-American ... -
Global Partnerships: An Exploration of Inter-Institutional Research Collaboratives
(2008-04-15)Society?s most pressing challenges are increasingly global in scale, creating the need for partnerships unconstrained by disciplinary, institutional, or national boundaries. Partnerships across countries, in particular, ... -
The Global University
(2008-03-11)Join two experts on the internationalization of higher education for a candid discussion about how local communities and regions benefit from the global efforts of their public universities. Topics will include knowledge ... -
Globalizing the 'Bologna Process': Looking Closely at Europe's 'Looking Out' Policy for Higher Education
(2009-05-15)Professor Robertson will be looking closely at the globalization of Europe's Bologna Process, which is altering the terms and terrain of higher education in and outside of Europe. She argues that this process-- the creation ... -
The Idea of Engagement and the African University in the 21st Century: Some Thoughts
(2008-04-02)Lesley Le Grange teaches and researches in the fields of environmental education, research methodology, science education, and curriculum and assessment. He is the recipient of three national (South African) awards for ... -
The Implications of Knowledge Transfer for Universities in General and for Arts and Humanities Subjects in Particular
(2008-06-06)Knowledge Transfer (KT) is an increasingly high-profile part of government policy in the United Kingdom, and this interactive seminar aims to explore whether KT is a uniquely UK concept. It will begin with an introduction ... -
Looking Outwards to the Global World: The Drive for Internationalizing Universities in Hong Kong and Asia
(2008-05-16)The rise of the knowledge-based economy has considerably transformed higher education systems as well as the underlying values and design of curricula in higher education. In order to enhance the global competence of ... -
Marshalling Resources for Change: System-Level Initiatives to Increase Access and Success
(2008-06-13)Canada has a highly educated population, and its overall rates of participation in postsecondary education are among the highest in the world. The problem of accessibility in Canadian higher education lies not in the overall ... -
More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education
(2009-01-30)This presentation is part of the Ideas and Universities International Video Seminar Series and is made available on the UW-Madison campus thanks to funding and support from the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, ... -
Organization and Governance of Universities
(2009-02-09)Professor Bleiklie will present an analysis of the ways in which ideas and ideals of university organization and governance have changed over the past few decades, moving away from a notion of the university as a republic ... -
Stirring the Lions: Strategy and Tactic in the Global Higher Education Wars
(2007-04-17)In this presentation, Susan Robertson, Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Bristol, examines the United States' and Australia's responses to the European Union's regionalizing and globalizing strategies ... -
Teacher Quality, Opportunity Gap, and National Achievement in 46 Countries
(2007-10)The 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study data from 46 countries showed that, although the national level of teacher quality in the United States was similar to the international average, the opportunity ... -
Teachers' Work: Institutional Isomorphism and Cultural Variation in the U.S., Germany, and Japan
(2001-08)With the growing attention to curricular standardization, especially in math and science, and equitable conditions that promote learning for all students, most research has continued to focus on instructional practice ... -
Understanding the Culture of Research Collaboration: An Exploration of Transnational Partnerships
(2009-05-09)Global partnerships with multi-national teams are increasingly referenced as a means to approach the world?s most pressing problems. This interactive session details an empirically derived conceptual framework that describes ...