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The Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) is an interdisciplinary research-institute located at the School of Management and Governance of the Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands. Since 1984, CHEPS has undertaken and published a considerable amount of research on higher education especially at system and institutional levels. CHEPS seeks to increase our understanding of institutional, national and international issues that bear upon Higher Education. |
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Honours: Jürgen Enders member of the Academia Europæa Professor Jürgen Enders has been elected as a member of Academia Europaea, an eminent organisation for European scholars. The non-governmental academy was founded in Cambridge in 1988 as the European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters. It has about 2300 members, including over 40 Nobel Laureates, from 35 European countries and 8 non-European countries. Membership is by invitation only. A three stage election process is followed to select the top scientists and scholars in different fields including ... read more |
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New book: "Questioning Excellence in Higher Education" Policies, Experiences and Challenges in National and Comparative Perspective |
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The new EU Communication Supporting growth and jobs – an agenda for the modernisation of Europe's higher education systems (September 2011) highlights once more the need for Member States and European higher education institutions to play a much more proactive role in contributing to the development of a smart, dynamic and sustainable competitive economy in the Knowledge Society which is also at the heart of the EU2020 Strategy. |
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Building Knowledge Cities: the Role of Universities How can mutually productive relationships between universities and their host cities be developed? And what are the factors which shape university-city relationships in diff erent contexts? This issue of Built Environment considers the dynamic inter-relationships between policies, places and academic institutions in the context of the knowledgebased economy. ... read more |
