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Peer reviewedFrackmann, Edgar – Higher Education Management, 1992
The Higher Education Information System (HIS) is Germany's publicly financed service institution serving higher education. One of its functions is to act as a clearinghouse for computer software for higher education. The evolution, role and mission, founding principles, and services of HIS in this capacity are explained. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Educational History
Peer reviewedMurphy, James – Oxford Review of Education, 1993
Considers the view, long fashionable in academic and political circles, that sees the expansion of higher education as benefiting the nation economically. Argues that higher education has expanded well beyond that threshold and would be regarded better as a form of consumption. (CFR)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
