This article shows the importance of appropriate governance and management structures that support income diversification, and reflects the role of university leaders in fostering cultural change in their institutions as well as for engaging and...
Based on a short review on the importance of philanthropic giving in UK and in the United States, this article highlights the relevance of fundraising to generate additional income. It identifies fundraising as a competitive business, which needs to...
This article describes the specific approach of the University of Warwick – one of UK’s most dynamic and progressive universities – to generate income. This includes a broad field of knowledge transfer activities and long-term relationships with big...
Delft University of Technology generates between 15 to 20 per cent of the total income from contract work with the private sector which is above average on the European continent. This paper describes the different ways of Delft University to work...
Many governments, the university sector and the European Commission have all recognised that increasing university autonomy represents a crucial step towards modernising higher education in the 21st century. However, the study “University Autonomy...
This paper gives an overview of the study “Financially Sustainable Universities II: European Universities Diversifying Income Sources” led by the European University Association between 2008 and 2011. It describes how European universities are...
In this paper, Professor Jean-Marc Rapp, President of the European University Association, reviews the Association’s work on the topic of financial sustainability in the light of the developments that have had an impact of universities in Europe in...
Der Zugang zur Hochschulbildung ist in Österreich bei Weitem zu schmal. International haben sich Bildungssysteme fast durchgängig in Richtung Öffnung des tertiären Bereichs durch kurze und aufbaufähige Studiengänge entwickelt. Faktum ist: Wir geben...
Erschienen in duz – Deutsche Universitätszeitung vom 23.3.2012 (duz MAGAZIN 4/2012). Fakultäten bekommen Jahr für Jahr in etwa das gleiche Grundbudget. Aber ist das gerecht, wenn der eine Fachbereich mehr Studenten betreut als der andere? Nein, sagt...
Das Kompetenznetzwerk cc-NanoBioNet e. V. und der Deutsche Verband Nanotechnologie e. V. (DV Nano) stiften den Journalistenpreis „Gedankenstrich“, der journalistische Beiträge zum Thema Nanotechnologie honoriert.
Quality-related funding, performance agreements and profiling in higher...
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Enders„Das System muss kurzfristig umgebaut werden“. Kernprobleme der...
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Dr. André Lottmann