The paper presents the results of research on teachers’ and students’ preferences for various teaching and learning methods used in higher education. In our study we found that despite our expectations teachers are not too keen on conventional teaching methods. Interestingly, these methods...

This paper aims to analyze the Italian University’s physical and human cognitive assets. First we focus on the continuous reductions in public funding (CNVSU, 2011; OECD, 2010) that constrained the Italian university to develop 'entrepreneurial skills', in other words due to the lack of...

The article displays the effects of the Bologna process and emphasizes the key fields which, so it seems, will not be efficiently achieved by 2010. In the next implementation steps of the Bologna declaration and the Lisbon strategy it is necessary to: (1) engage different fields of European...

This paper provides a brief description of a research study entitled Mislem - ‘Developing Meta-level quality Indicators for establishing a Systematic Linkage between institutions of higher Education and the labour Market’, carried out between 2005 and 2007 (Leonardo da Vinci Project,...

The informatization of processes and the multimedia approach are making a mark on everyday life and are changing it. In the information age organizations have to face the fact that the only way to gain advantage over their competitors and remain in the market in the new economy is by introducing...

This article deals with the higher education demand factors in Slovenia. We present an empirical application of the demand models, and based on the estimates of the models’ parameters, we develop the most appropriate empirical higher education demand model for Slovenia. The model includes...