Disentangling the Reform Gridlock: Higher Education in Germany. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 02.7, 2002

For more than a decade, bemoaning the many roadblocks to reforming important aspect of German politics has become commonplace. Explanations emphasize formal and informal veto points, such as the role of political institutions and the lack of elite and societal support for reform initiatives. Against this background, I was interested in factors that place policy issues on the political agenda and follow up with concrete courses of action; i.e., in factors that lead to a disentangling of the reform gridlock. I emphasize the importance of agenda setting in the emergence of higher education reform in Germany. Globalization, European integration and domestic pressures combined to create new pressures for change. In response, an advocacy coalition of old and new political actors has introduced a drawn-out and ongoing process of value reorientation in the direction of competition, including international competition, and greater autonomy. The result has been a burst of activities, some moderate, some more far-reaching in their potential to restructure German higher education.

How Do Second-Generation Immigrant Students Access Higher Education? The Importance of Vocational Routes to Higher Education in Switzerland, France, and Germany

We analyse the access to different institutional pathways to higher education for second-generation students, focusing on youths that hold a higher-education entrance certificate. The alternative vocational pathway appears to compensate to some degree, compared to the traditional academic one, for North-African and Southern-European youths in France, those from Turkey in Germany, and to a lesser degree those from Portugal, Turkey, Ex-Yugoslavia, Albania/Kosovo in Switzerland. This is not the case in Switzerland for Western-European, Italian, and Spanish youths who indeed access higher education via the academic pathway more often than Swiss youths. Using youth panel and survey data, multinomial models are applied to analyse these pathway choices.

Education in Chile

"OE-14096."

Education in Venezuela.

Mode of access: Internet.

College and university public education in the Caribbean.

"Reprinted by permission from The Caribbean: contemporary education, University of Florida Press, 1960."

Public education in Puerto Rico,

"Issued by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education. Harold L. Ickes is Secretary of the Interior and George F. Zook is Commissioner of Education. Katherine M. Cook ... is chief of the Division of Special Problems."--Verso of t.-p.

Basic education in manpower programs : the R & D experience : [report] /

Includes bibliographical references.

Spanish-English bilingual education in the U.S. : current issues, resources, and research priorities /

"An investigation commissioned by the National Institute of Education...completed in 1974."

The Condition of bilingual education in the nation : a report from the Secretary of Education to the President and the Congress.

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Mode of access: Internet.