TY  - BOOK
ED  - Geschwind, Lars
ED  - Broström, Anders
ED  - Larsen, Katarina
AB  - This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of higher education institutions. Introduced in the age of industrialization, polytechnical schools rose to prominence in many national settings during the second half of the 19th century. Over time, new technologies have been developed and incorporated into the repertoire, and waves of academisation have swept over the former polytechnics, transforming them into technical universities. Their traditions and brands, however, prevail. Several technical universities are included among the most prestigious academic institutions of their nations and the training of engineers and engineering research still enjoys a high level of prestige and national priority, e.g. in the context of innovation and industrial policy. But the world keeps changing, and the higher education sector with it. Will technical universities have an equally attractive position within university systems in the decades to come?
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-50555-4
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201013_9783030505554_36
KW  - Higher Education
KW  - History of Education
KW  - International and Comparative Education
KW  - Administration, Organization and Leadership
KW  - Organization and Leadership
KW  - historical perspective of technical universities
KW  - polytechnical universities
KW  - external pressure at technical universities
KW  - university governance regimes
KW  - engineering academisation
KW  - professional values in engineering education
KW  - identity formation at technical universities
KW  - university-industry interaction
KW  - university merger process
KW  - double degree programmes in engineering and education
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Higher & further education, tertiary education
KW  - History of education
KW  - Education
KW  - Educational administration & organization
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9dc20ab5-45cf-4ff6-a475-7ea3420b7fa7/2020_Book_TechnicalUniversities.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42564
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2020
TI  - Technical Universities : Past, present and future
ER  - 
