The article presents some key developments in quality assurance (QA) on a European level over the last ten years. Particular attention is paid to discussing the impact of European QA policies (e.g. the European Standards & Guidelines) at the...

This article begins with a critical assessment of the impacts of rankings on the European and national landscapes of higher education and analyses their unintended side effects on organisational behaviour of universities. It makes an attempt to...

This special issue is a bridging effort to bring together science policy and academic research productivity analysis by focusing on knowledge production, diffusion and commercialization policies and practices. The discussion addresses two major...

Attention shifted in recent years from design and implementation to use and usefulness of quality
assurance. Scientific studies focus increasingly on quality assurance’s impact on curricula and
on individual teachers. Which (f)actors...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die strategischen Überlegungen bei der Implementierung von Open Access an einer Institution international herausragender Forschung und Lehre in den Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Darüber hinaus wird ein Einblick in die...

This report provides an overview of relevant policy information and stakeholders’ views on quality-related funding, performance agreements and profiling in a number of selected countries. The study is conducted for the Dutch Ministry of Education...

The grants of the European Research Council (ERC) aim to support »frontier research«. In other words, they encourage the pursuit of questions at or beyond the frontiers of knowledge, without regard for established disciplinary boundaries. ERC...