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Multi-level governance in higher education – When and how can reflective practice enhance policy learning?

Adrienn Nyircsak Higher education is increasingly transformed through internationalisation and Europeanisation. One of the drivers of this change is the emergence of transnational stakeholder communities who channel local experiences with policy implementation into policy-making through peer exchange.  My doctoral dissertation focused on the dynamic interaction between different levels of policy-making and the specific institutional and Multi-level governance in higher education – When and how can reflective practice enhance policy learning?

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Comparative Higher Education Politics. Policymaking in North America and Western Europe Jens Jungblut Several people have argued in recent years that higher education has become a more important policy sector in most if not all countries around the world (see e.g. Busemeyer, Garritzmann, & Neimanns, 2020; Garritzmann, 2016; Gornitzka & Maassen, 2014). An increasing percentage

The Role of Inclusion in Macro‐Regional Policies for Student Mobility

By Alina Felder & Merli Tamtik Even though barrier‐free access to student mobility has become a significant policy problem for governments (Cairns, 2019), issues of social justice have been largely absent from institutional strategies of higher education (HE) internationalisation (Buckner et al., 2020a; Özturgut 2017). With our research we contribute to this aspect, offering a The Role of Inclusion in Macro‐Regional Policies for Student Mobility

ECPR General Conference, Prague, 4-8 September 2023 – Knowledge Politics and Policies SG

The ECPR General Conference in Prague is approaching and we wanted to give you an overview of the week 4-8 September from the point of view of the Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group Panels in our Section This year we have nine panels and they are all happening in the first half of the ECPR General Conference, Prague, 4-8 September 2023 – Knowledge Politics and Policies SG

Politics of EU research funding

Inga Ulnicane EU research policy has experienced tremendous growth in terms of increase in the EU-level competences, funds, initiatives and policy instruments. While today EU research policy is taken for granted, in the early days of European political integration in the 1950s its establishment was far from obvious. Initial treaties did not envisage European level Politics of EU research funding

Bringing Transparency to University Teaching: The English Experience

Andrew Gunn  The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has returned following revisions, but how has it changed? Are we any nearer to solving the wicked problem of measuring university teaching? And why did England, which already has mature quality assurance arrangements, need to introduce the TEF in the first place? New Framework This September will Bringing Transparency to University Teaching: The English Experience

Science diplomacy and the North-South divide: Lessons learned from Southern participation in intergovernmental science organizations

Anna-Lena Rüland, Nicolas Rüffin, Katharina Cramer, Prosper Ngabonziza, Manoj Saxena, Stefan Skupien Science diplomacy, broadly defined as all activities at the intersection of science policy and international relations, has become somewhat of a buzzword during the last 10 years. Initially coined and put on the international agenda by prominent US-American policymakers and institutions, it has Science diplomacy and the North-South divide: Lessons learned from Southern participation in intergovernmental science organizations

Excellent paper award 2022

It is our great pleasure to announce that the jury composed of Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL, UK), Emanuela Reale (IRCRES NRC, Italy) and Luis Sanz-Menendez (IPP CSIC, Spain) have reached their decision and decided to award the 2022 Excellent Paper from an Emerging Scholar Award of the ECPR (The European Consortium for Political Research) Knowledge Politics and Excellent paper award 2022