Third Mission of Higher Education in a Cross-Border Region
Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Abstract: The present volume discusses the roles of higher education reaching beyond the traditional, direct functions of higher educational institutions. In this volume the initial findings of the project titled HERD: Higher Education for Social Cohesion – Cooperative Research and Development in a Cross-border Area (HURO/0901/253/2.2.2.)1 are summarized. The research focuses on some of the dimensions of higher education in the special region called Partium, a territory shared by Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine. Higher research education usually deals primarily with data gathered at a national level; in this context, the institutions in the area are often slightly ignored in the respective mainstream national research programs. This region affords an excellent example of an emerging new international higher education area that comes into being as a result of the general restructuring of higher education. Papers included in the volume adress different aspects of higher education such as: academic ranking; quality of higher education; educational policies; campus realities; university curricula; volunteering and employability; enrollment in higher education. HERD research uses a wide range of methodological procedures. On the one hand researchers using qualitative methods addressed smaller target groups in order to reveal the opinions and attitudes of people involved in higher education. On the other hand researchers selecting a quantitative approach, used a large-scale, coordinated survey through an inventory circulated simultaneously among the students.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2374793842