Germany's "Excellence Initiative"

Authors

  • Daniel Fallon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2008.52.8036

Keywords:

Reform and Change, World-Class University, Europe, Germany

Abstract

In January 2004, German federal minister for higher education and research in the Social Democratic government started a process called the Excellence Initiative, which simply selects and supports six universities to be Germany's top institutions of higher learning, with an intensive finance from the federal and state governments. Three competitions were organized for the initiative: graduate schools, excellence clusters, and futures concept. The Excellence Initiative has been breaking the previous notion of the equivalence of universities, in order to maintain international competitiveness of German higher education.

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Published

2008-05-09

How to Cite

Fallon, D. (2008). Germany’s "Excellence Initiative". International Higher Education, (52). https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2008.52.8036

Issue

No. 52: Summer 2008

Section

Western European Developments

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