Publications

The trend toward higher education since the turn of the millennium has reduced labor shortages in academic professions. However, an increase in the number of professionals with advanced degrees could drive down wages. This raises the question of whether pursuing a college degree is still financially worthwhile.

German academia has faced multiple changes over the last two decades, including new academic pathways to full professorship inspired by the Anglo-Saxon academic system, such as junior professorship and tenure track. Our study investigates the patterns of academic career trajectories to full professorship that have emerged subsequently. We illuminate the relationship between those “career types” and their determinants. Using data from the prof*panel (N = 660) and sequence-cluster analysis, we find four academic career clusters. Our findings suggest that traditional career paths still play a major role, although the influence of internationalization and novel academic career steps, like junior professorship, is growing.

Nacaps, the National Academics Panel Study, is a longitudinal study of doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) until 2024. The project aims at providing nationwide cross-sectional and longitudinal data on doctoral candidates and doctorate holders in Germany regarding their study conditions as well as their career trajectories within and outside of academia. The Nacaps study series apply a panel design to multiple cohorts. [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:nac2020:1.0.0

How are German universities coping with internationalization in the course of digital transformation? This article highlights increasing roles for IT staff and collaboration between administrative and academic personnel to enhance online delivery and partnerships. Digitalization offers potential but requires strategic integration; organizational support; digital literacy; and a holistic approach that promotes access, inclusion, diversity, and sustainable outcomes.

Since 2001, Wissenschaft weltoffen analyses the internationalisation of higher education and science in Germany and around the world. The compact edition of the annual data report contains the latest internationalisation indicators in a visually appealing format. The indicators presented provide information on mobility rates and countries of origin and destination of internationally mobile students in Germany and abroad. They also relate to researcher mobility to and from Germany as well as internationalisation structures in German higher education. The indicators presented are based on international data published by the OECD and UNESCO, national data from the Federal Statistical Office and the findings of own surveys.

Since 2001, Wissenschaft weltoffen analyses the internationalisation of higher education and science in Germany and around the world. The compact edition of the annual data report contains the latest internationalisation indicators in a visually appealing format. The indicators presented provide information on mobility rates and countries of origin and destination of internationally mobile students in Germany and abroad. They also relate to researcher mobility to and from Germany as well as internationalisation structures in German higher education. The indicators presented are based on international data published by the OECD and UNESCO, national data from the Federal Statistical Office and the findings of own surveys.