Contribution in edited book
Higher Education Systems, Types of
Publication Details
Authors: | Jungblut, J.; Maassen, P. |
Editor: | Shin, Jung Cheol; Teixeira, Pedro |
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
Place: | Dordrecht |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Pages range : | 1-9 |
Book title: | Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions |
ISBN: | 978-94-017-9553-1 |
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Languages: | English |
Abstract
All higher education institutions around the world are embedded in some type of national or subnational system. But this has not always been the case. By the end of the eighteenth century, the then existing higher education landscape consisted of a small number of in essence self-standing universities that were not governed and organized in an integrated way by state authorities. In the middle of the nineteenth century, most of the world's universities were located in Europe (in total 98 universities), while most of the non-European universities could be found in the USA (Rüegg 2004: 3). Most of these universities were denominationally anchored, homogeneously organized institutions with hardly any specific national ...
All higher education institutions around the world are embedded in some type of national or subnational system. But this has not always been the case. By the end of the eighteenth century, the then existing higher education landscape consisted of a small number of in essence self-standing universities that were not governed and organized in an integrated way by state authorities. In the middle of the nineteenth century, most of the world's universities were located in Europe (in total 98 universities), while most of the non-European universities could be found in the USA (Rüegg 2004: 3). Most of these universities were denominationally anchored, homogeneously organized institutions with hardly any specific national ...
