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Continuing Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Michaela Knust · Anke Hanft Editors Continuing Higher Education and Lifelong Learning An International Comparative Study on Structures, Organisation and Provisions 123 Editors Dr. Michaela Knust Prof. Dr. Anke Hanft Universitat¨ Oldenburg Universitat¨ Oldenburg C3L - Center for Lifelong Learning Institut fur¨ Padagogik¨ 26111 Oldenburg 26111 Oldenburg Germany Germany [email protected] [email protected] ISBN 978-1-4020-9675-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9676-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9676-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009920107 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Das diesem Bericht zugrundeliegende Vorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesmin- isteriums f¨ur Bildung, und Forschung unter dem F¨orderkennzeichen M186000 gef¨ordert. Die Verantwortung f¨ur den Inhalt dieser Ver¨offentlichung liegt beim Autor. The findings in this book are results of a project which was funded by financial means of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) under the support code M186000. The authors have responsibility for the content of this publication. The findings were translated from German into English. The translation was funded under the above mentioned project (support code M186000). It was done by Hugh Keith & Team Fax: +44 131 229 0693 E-Mail: [email protected] Contents Continuing Higher Education in a State of Flux: An International Comparison of the Role and Organisation of Continuing Higher Education ...................... 1 Ulrich Teichler and Anke Hanft Design of the International Comparative Study .............. 15 Wolfgang Muskens¨ and Anke Hanft Comparative Overview of Study Results .................. 23 Anke Hanft and Michaela Knust Continuing Higher Education in Germany ................ 71 Peter Faulstich, Gernot Graeßner, Ursula Bade-Becker and Bianca Gorys Continuing Higher Education in Finland ................. 145 Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Alexandra Reith Continuing Higher Education in France .................. 175 Torsten Dunkel and Isabelle Le Mouillour Continuing Higher Education in the United Kingdom .......... 215 Brigitte Geldermann and Susanne Schade Continuing Higher Education in Austria .................. 247 Ada Pellert and Eva Cendon Continuing Higher Education in the United States of America (USA) . 287 Heinke Robken¨ Corporate Universities and Research Associations as Players in Continuing Higher Education ...................... 323 Michaela Knust and Anke Hanft Author Index ................................. 357 Subject Index ................................. 361 vii About the Authors Dr. Ursula Bade-Becker graduated in Education Studies (Diplom-P¨adagogik), and since then has been a member of the academic staff in the Contact Centre for Academic Continuing Education at Bielefeld University and manager of the Centre for Academic Further Education of Bielefeld University. Her fields of activity are structure and organisation, ascertainment of demand and quality management for continuing higher education. Contact: [email protected] Dr. Eva Cendon has been member of the academic staff of the Department of Continuing Education Research and Educational Management at the Danube University, Krems and Director of the Office of AUCEN – the Austrian University Continuing Education and Staff Development Network. Since February 2009 she is member of the academic staff of the Berlin University for Professional Studies. Her academic activity is mainly in the fields of university continuing education and lifelong learning, with particular emphasis on universities. Current studies and projects are on matters concerning the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF) with special focus on learning outcomes in higher education. Contact: [email protected] Dr. Torsten Dunkel is project manager for the early identification of skill needs (Skillsnet) in the Area Research and Policy Analysis at Cedefop, the European Agency to promote the development of vocational education and training (VET) in the European Union, Thessaloniki. Formerly he was a member of the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel at the University of Kassel (INCHER-Kassel). His research fields include the links between education/training and the labour market and economy, in particular on the early identification of skill needs, the forecast of skill supply and demand, and on skill needs in enterprises. He also worked on the relations of HE, CVET and IVET, credit systems for education, competence development as well as mobility barriers and knowledge transfer between university and industry, the implications of the Bologna and Copenhagen processes for European education, and interchangeability between vocational and university education in Europe. In the area of research into comparative social sciences in France, he did research on the management of national innovations systems, research policy and intercultural communication. Contact: [email protected] ix x About the Authors Prof. Dr. Peter Faulstich is Professor of Educational Studies with the emphasis on adult education at the University of Hamburg. His fields of research and work are adult education, professional and vocational further education, staff development, cultural education and education policy. Since 2002, he has been Chairman of the German Association for University Continuing and Distance Education (DGWF, formerly Arbeitskreis Universit¨are Erwachsenenbildung). Contact: [email protected] Brigitte Geldermann studied sociology, politics and Slavonic Studies in Erlangen and has many years’ experience of empirical research projects and European projects, as well as regular exchanges in partnerships with French, British, Spanish, Belgian, and Italian universities and research institutions, among others. She is currently Head of the department of continuing education at the Forschungsinstitut betriebliche Bildung (f-bb) (Research Institute for Occupational Training) in Nuremberg. Her work is mainly centred on the themes of continuing higher education, continuing education for older workers, cooperation and networking in education and quality assurance in continuing education. Contact: [email protected] Bianca Gorys graduated in Education Studies (Diplom-P¨adagogik), and since then has been a member of the academic staff of the Contact Centre for Academic Continuing Education at Bielefeld University. Her activities are mainly centred on the structure and organisation of continuing higher education and benchmarking in continuing education. Contact: [email protected] Dr. Gernot Graeßner is the academic director of the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. He is the Head of Continuing Higher Education and the director of the Contact Centre for Academic Continuing Education at Bielefeld University. His fields of research and work are academic continuing education, adult education and further education, particularly the methodology of teaching, and also adult and further education law and institutions. Contact: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Anke Hanft is Professor of Continuing Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. She is the spokesperson for the department of continuing education and education management of the Faculty of Education and academic director of the Wolfgang Schulenberg Institut f¨ur Bildungsforschung (Wolfgang Schulenberg Institute for Education Research). Her work and research focuses on quality management and development in education and academic institutions. Prof. Hanft is a member of the Council of the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Advisory Council for Continuing Education of the German Adult Education Association, the Advisory Council of the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of Bremen, the Advisory Council of the journal Report, the Programme Advisory Council for the “Master-Online” programme of the state of Baden-W¨urttemberg, director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) of the University of Oldenburg and chairman of the international About the Authors xi steering group of the Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance (AQA). Contact: [email protected] Dr. Michaela Knust is the managing director of the Center of Lifelong Learning at the University of Oldenburg. Until May 2009 she was a member of the academic staff in the department of Continuing Education and Education Management at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2006. The focus of her work includes national and international projects, such as the international comparative study on the structure and organisation of continuing higher education and the follow-up project on the dissemination of the results (project coordination and management), management of continuing higher education courses (“MaweSt”, project coordination) and DIES partnership with the NMM University in Port Elizabeth (project coordination).