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Research in non-university higher education institutions. The case of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences

Lepori, Benedetto

In: Higher Education, 2008, vol. 56, no. 1, p. 45-58

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    Titre
    • Research in non-university higher education institutions. The case of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences
    Auteur
    • Lepori, Benedetto. University of Lugano, via Lambertenghi 10a, 6904, Lugano, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:312300
    Summary
    This paper presents the development of research in the Swiss non-university higher education sector and frames it in the debate on the organization of higher education systems in Western Europe and on the dynamics between university and non-university sector. It shows that, in the Swiss case, the applied research mandate has been used to differentiate these institutions from universities and that this endeavor has been to a large extent successful in technology, while it has been a source of major tensions in the other domains. I conclude that the development of research in the non-higher education leads to complex dynamics of convergence and of differentiation and that this process is strongly influenced by the specificities and differences between different subject domains