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Donald F. Westerheijden

Donald F. Westerheijden

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
6033
World Ranking
6471
National Ranking
252

Overview

Donald F. Westerheijden is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Social Psychology.

The scientist has explored various topics, including:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
  • Education in Diverse Contexts
  • Competency Development and Evaluation

Recent publications by Donald F. Westerheijden include:

  • "Time Allocation of Academics in Ukraine: Degree and Gender Correlates in a Semi-peripheral State," published in 2021 in European Education
  • "Onderzoek 'Excellentie in het hoger onderwijs: selectie, effectiviteit en uitstralingseffecten': Aanbevelingen en aandachtspunten voor hogeronderwijsinstellingen," published in 2020 through Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Frequent collaborators in their research work include:

  • Myroslava Hladchenko
  • Renze Kolster
  • Kim van Broekhoven
  • Tim Huijts
  • Marieke Isendam

Donald F. Westerheijden's work is frequently published in venues such as European Education and Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), representing platforms relevant to their fields of study and research interests.

Best Publications

  • Quality Assurance In Higher Education

    Don F. Westerheijden;Bjørn Stensaker;Maria João Rosa

  • Towards a general model of quality assessment in higher education

    Frans A. Van Vught;Don F. Westerheijden

  • Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

    Stefanie Schwarz;Donald F. Westerheijden

  • Quality assurance in higher education : trends in regulation, translation and transformation

    Donald F. Westerheijden;B. Stensaker;M. Joao Rosa

  • Globalisation and Internationalisation: Policy Agendas Compared

    Franciscus A. van Vught;Marijk van der Wende;Donald F. Westerheijden

  • An in‐depth study on the impact of external quality assurance

    Bjørn Stensaker;Liv Langfeldt;Lee Harvey;Jeroen Huisman

  • Quality management and quality assurance in European higher education : Methods and mechanisms

    F.A. van Vught;D.F. Westerheijden

  • From Design and Implementation to Impact of Quality Assurance: An Overview of Some Studies into what Impacts Improvement

    Don F. Westerheijden;Veerle Hulpiau;Kim Waeytens

  • Systemic adaptation to a changing environment: Towards a next generation of quality assurance models

    Margarita Jeliazkova;Don F. Westerheijden

  • Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area

    Stefanie Schwarz;Don F. Westerheijden

  • Quality management in Hungarian higher education: organisational responses to governmental policy

    Tibor Csizmadia;Jürgen Enders;Donald F. Westerheijden

  • Ex oriente lux? : national and multiple accreditation in Europe after the fall of the Wall and after Bologna

    Donald F. Westerheijden

  • International Aspects of Quality Assurance with a Special Focus on European Higher Education

    Marijk van der Wende;Donald F. Westerheijden

  • States and Europe and Quality of Higher Education

    Donald F. Westerheijden

  • Reform of higher education in Europe

    Jürgen Enders;Harry De Boer;Jon File;Ben Jongbloed

  • Effects of quality assessment in Dutch higher education

    Mark M.H. Frederiks;Don F. Westerheijden;Peter J.M. Weusthof

  • Peers, performance and power : Quality assessment in the Netherlands

    Donald F. Westerheijden

  • Changing contexts of quality assessment: recent trends in West European higher education

    Don F. Westerheijden;John Brennan;Peter A.M. Maassen

  • Disseminating the Right Information to the Right Audience: Cultural Determinants in the Use (and Misuse) of Rankings.

    Leon Cremonini;Donald F. Westerheijden;Jürgen Enders

  • Multidimensional ranking:a new transparency tool for higher education and research.

    Franciscus A. van Vught;Donald F. Westerheijden

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen Huisman
Jeroen Huisman Ghent University
Jürgen Enders
Jürgen Enders University of Bath
Bjørn Stensaker
Bjørn Stensaker University of Oslo
Peter Maassen
Peter Maassen University of Oslo
Paul Stephen Benneworth
Paul Stephen Benneworth University of Bergen
Alberto Amaral
Alberto Amaral University of Porto
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Dave Huitema
Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research
Anne Corbett
Anne Corbett University of Exeter
Jaap Scheerens
Jaap Scheerens University of Twente

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