Key Issues in the Diversity Discourse
The key activities within higher education – teaching and learning, research, and possible others, for example, service – are undertaken within every higher education system in diverse institutional “settings” – also called “shapes,” “configurations,” or “structures.” And these settings of a higher education system vary substantially between countries. We note a perennial debate since about the 1960s about the extent, the major modes, the causes, the major trends – increasing diversification – as well as the “benefits” or “problems” of the various diverse institutional settings.
In looking at the institutional settings of higher education, we refer to the macro-level of society. A higher education system, as a rule, is understood as comprising all respective institutions within a country. Although the character of some academic disciplines is universalistic, international cooperation and exchange is widespread and many scholars harbor cosmopolitan...
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Teichler, U. (2017). Higher Education System Differentiation, Horizontal and Vertical. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_36-1
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