Multiple competition in research and teaching: South Korea and the USA as international comparative cases Participating researchers

Prof. Dr. Anna Kosmützky (University of Hannover)

Prof. Dr. Guido Bünstorf (University of Kassel)

In the first funding phase, project A1 has focussed on multiple competition in research and teaching using the example of the German Excellence Initiative and the Teaching Quality Pact. In the second phase, we will continue to analyse competitions in the two classic core areas of universities - research and teaching - and place a focus on multiplicity, i.e. the effects of different competitions on each other (or the absence of such effects). An international comparison will place the German case analysed in the first funding phase in a broader international context.

Using the example of the USA and South Korea, the project will analyse how multiple competition in research and teaching affects the positioning of universities whose competitive conditions differ significantly from those in Germany. In addition, the competitive dynamics that arise under the different framework conditions will be analysed, as well as the consequences, which will be examined on a case- and country-specific basis. Dealing with national systems that are characterised to a large extent by private universities, in which competition for students is far more advanced than in Germany, but in which, for example, the role of the state differs significantly at the same time, promises relevant insights for a theory of multiple competition and the question of how this is represented and develops under different contextual conditions. In this way, we are making a contribution to higher education and science research that also appears suitable for the transfer of knowledge into practice.