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Recent changes in European higher education have accompanied a strong desire and need by national ministries to have comparable data across institutions and a growing recognition from campus leaders that effective planning and decision-making requires reliable institutional data and analyses. This has induced changes and restructuring of duties and roles of administration, administrative staff and academic staff. In North America, internal institutional data analysis is often referred to as institutional research. We examine the roles and functions of institutional research within North America and how the changes within European higher education have created a purpose for institutional research. Specifically, we explore the topical areas of institutional assessment, data management, institutional governance, as well as the changing identity of academic professionals within European universities. Within our examination, we explore indepth one European country’s higher education system to demonstrate how history, culture and legislative changes manifest into a need for institutional research.
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Mathies, C., Välimaa, J. Is There a Need for a European Institutional Research?. Tert Educ Manag 19, 85–96 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2012.747558
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