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In the concluding remarks, the editors reflect upon lacunae and implications of the chapters presented before. We discuss the legitimacy of choosing nation states as levels of analysis, the problem of international cooperation in the SSH and the absence of useful typologies of countries in the sphere of higher education as well as possible indicators upon which such typologies could be built. Using our own data as well as data from international organizations, we ask furthermore why disciplines show different growth rates between countries and over time. While we are unable to present detailed explanations of the growth of disciplines, we offer two more abstract ‘models’ indicating what we believe determines different growth rates of disciplines in international comparison.
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According to data from UNESCO the share of students enrolled in private institutions of Higher Education increased in the first decade of the 21st c: In France from 15 to 17%, in Hungary from 13 to 15, in Italy from 6 to 8 and in Argentina in 2007 to 25%. The other countries from our sample did not report any numbers of students enrolled in private institutions. The data for UK are given as 100% private. (Altbach et al. 2009) Appendix, Table 2, pp. 199–205.
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It is worth remembering that distributing agencies seldom publish statistics about less aggregated entities than the container SSH, STEM, BioMed etc. In addition, it would be necessary to relate any of these figures also to the number of researchers and similar statistical populations.
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Number of female graduates for one male graduate.
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Disciplines are broader than study programs. According to a recent report in DIE ZEIT in Germany there are 19,000 different study programs in tertiary education. This number alone would legitimize the usage of the language of disciplines. DIE ZEIT 19.10.2017, p. 69.
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Fleck, C., Duller, M., Karády, V. (2019). Concluding Remarks. In: Fleck, C., Duller, M., Karády, V. (eds) Shaping Human Science Disciplines. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92780-0_10
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