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Ulrich Teichler, Professor, International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) University of Kassel, Germany
Ulrich Teichler is professor at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) and at the Department for Social Sciences of the University of Kassel (Germany) since 1978.He was the director of INCHER-Kassel for 16 years and vice president of the University of Kassel for two years (1980-1982).Professor on part-time or short-term basis at the Northwestern University, Evanston/Illinois, U.S. (1986-1992), College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (1994-1996) and Hiroshima University, Japan (2004).Other teaching assignments include universities in Argentina, Austria, Germany and Norway.He also spent extended periods as a research fellow in Japan (in the 1990s) and the Netherlands (1985/1986).His key research areas are the following: higher education and the world of work, international comparison of higher education systems, and international cooperation and mobility in higher education.His list of academic publications includes about 1000 titles.He was and is currently co-editor of various journals, among them ‘Higher Education'.He has carried out expert and consultancy activities for UNESCO, OECD (eg reviewer national education policies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland), World Bank, Council of Europe, the European Commission, national governments as well as for various international and national university organisations.He is a member of the International Academy of Education, of the Academia Europaea (1992-), former chairman of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) (1988-1989 and 1992-1992), honorary member (2003-) of the European Association for Institutional Research (EAIR), chair of the Scientific Committee Europe and North America, UNESCO Forum of Higher Education, Research and Knowledge (2003-).