A comparison of higher education reform in South Korea and Germany

Hur, Joonyoung; Bessey, Donata

doi:10.1007/s12564-012-9238-5

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“…In the wake of the Asia Crisis, the Brain Korea (BK) Program was launched in the late 1990s (Seong et al, 2008). Its purpose was to transform Korea from a materials-driven economy to a knowledge-driven one (Hur and Bessey, 2013). The Humanities Korea (HK) project was added in the 2000s by president Rho Moo-Hyun who particularly targeted the humanities to establish Korea as a soft power, especially in the area of entertainment and performing arts (which later led to the nation’s rise as a pop-cultural powerhouse).…”

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Trends in Korean studies: A content analysis of Korea-related articles published in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1990–2015

Schwekendiek

2020

International Area Studies Review

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While South Korea has become an economic and pop-cultural powerhouse in recent decades, North Korea has remained continuously in the media due to its humanitarian issues and nuclear brinkmanship. Accordingly, academic research on the Korean peninsula might have noticeably increased during the same period. To this end, a quantitative content analysis of all Korea-related articles appearing in the influential Arts and Humanities Citation Index was conducted. From 1990 to 2015, a total of 2406 articles were published, representing a noticeable increase – from just 20 articles in 1990 to 233 works by 2015. Moreover, while most articles on Korea were written by non-Korean scholars initially, the situation reversed by 2001, and that gap has continued to widen. Expectedly, the vast majority of articles have been published in typical humanities subjects such as area studies, linguistics and history (over 50%). Unexpectedly, the number of articles on North Korea has remained low, peaking at 20 in 2013.

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Trends in Korean studies: A content analysis of Korea-related articles published in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1990–2015

Schwekendiek

2020

International Area Studies Review

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“…With the World Trade Organisation agreements in 1995, transferring knowledge from advanced countries became more difficult due to the increased cost for intellectual property and strict regulation for technology import and Korean industries had more pressures to develop their own research capacity and advanced technology for independent economic structure (Byun et al , 2013; Kim, 1997). Universities, particularly doctoral programmes, played a crucial role in creating new knowledge and technology and maintaining a highly educated workforce (Hur and Bessey, 2013).…”

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Domestic and overseas doctorates and their academic entry-level jobs in South Korea

Jung

2018

AEDS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the development and challenges of doctoral education in Korea. In particular, it focusses on the differences between overseas and domestic doctorates in terms of training, supply and demand in the academic workforce, their academic entry-level jobs and employment status. Design/methodology/approach This study applied document analysis to mainly secondary data sources. The data were drawn from the Statistical Yearbooks of Education, Annual Science and Technology Statistics, the Database for Overseas Doctorates Registration and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Findings The findings indicate that the doctoral education system in Korea, in terms of both size and quality, has demonstrated significant development for last four decades. However, the results also show that overseas doctorates have relative advantages for their academic job entry over domestic doctorates, and the major research universities are more likely to hire those with overseas doctorates than domestic doctorates. Originality/value This study presents the evolution of the doctoral education system in Korea, which has not yet been considered in the international research.

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“…For this purpose, a number of countries (including Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, New Zealand, and UK) have already established national evaluation systems (Bornmann 2015 ), which subject research institutions to continuous evaluation. Whereas these systems focus mainly on an ex-post evaluation of research at institutions, in other countries, like South Korea and Germany, ex-ante evaluations are conducted for the award of research grants in order to support a small number of institutions (Hur and Bessey 2013 ; Schweizerischer Wissenschafts- und Technologierat 2013 ). For example, the Excellence Initiative was launched in Germany in 2006, which provided a total of €1.9 billion in additional funding for three funding lines between 2006 and 2011: (1) Graduate schools to promote early career researchers; (2) Clusters of Excellence to promote top-level research; and (3) institutional strategies to promote top-level university research.…”

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“…For example, the Excellence Initiative was launched in Germany in 2006, which provided a total of €1.9 billion in additional funding for three funding lines between 2006 and 2011: (1) Graduate schools to promote early career researchers; (2) Clusters of Excellence to promote top-level research; and (3) institutional strategies to promote top-level university research. The Excellence Initiative was intended to break up the often-cited homogeneity among the institutions of the German university system (Hur and Bessey 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They should also create excellent training and career conditions for young researchers” ( http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/excellence_initiative/clusters_excellence/index.html ). Accordingly, the aim of providing support for Clusters of Excellence is to create internationally competitive centres of research (including selected cooperating institutions) (Hur and Bessey 2013 ). The institutions supported under this funding line are referred to as excellence institutions in the following sections.…”

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Is the promotion of research reflected in bibliometric data? A network analysis of highly cited papers on the Clusters of Excellence supported under the Excellence Initiative in Germany

Bornmann

2016

Scientometrics

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Under the Excellence Initiative, a number of Clusters of Excellence in Germany have been supported since 2006 and 2007—including each a limited number of cooperating institutions. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether support for Clusters of Excellence since 2006 and 2007 is reflected in bibliometric network data. For this purpose, a comparison is made between network data in the period before support started (2003–2005) and in the period after support started (2009–2011). For these two periods, a co-authorship network is generated (based on the funded institutions). This is based on publications which are among the 1 % most frequently cited publications in their respective fields and publication year and which have at least one author from Germany. As the results show, the outcomes this yields for life sciences and natural sciences differ from each other. Whereas natural sciences display an effect of establishment of Clusters of Excellence on the bibliometric networks, this was not true of life sciences. After establishment of the Clusters of Excellence, the network in natural sciences not only contained more institutions of a Cluster of Excellence, but these institutions were distributed across fewer bibliometric clusters in the network than before establishment. In other words the structure of the Clusters of Excellence was better reflected in the network.

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A comparison of higher education reform in South Korea and Germany

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Trends in Korean studies: A content analysis of Korea-related articles published in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1990–2015

Trends in Korean studies: A content analysis of Korea-related articles published in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1990–2015

Domestic and overseas doctorates and their academic entry-level jobs in South Korea

Is the promotion of research reflected in bibliometric data? A network analysis of highly cited papers on the Clusters of Excellence supported under the Excellence Initiative in Germany

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