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The Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Education Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04087-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-04086-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 13, 2014

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Chapter 1Higher Education Reform and the Resultant Increased Complexity: An Introduction

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 1 –9

[The book ‘Sudoku Effect’ shows how complicated arithmetics of numbers increasingly overwhelm curricular decision making at universities.]
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Chapter 2Small Points, Great Effects: On the Introduction of a New Artificial Currency

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 11 –25

[The introduction of ECTS credit points has produced complexities that even computers find hard to master.]
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Chapter 3The Sudoku Effect: On Degree Arithmetic

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 27 –38

[The guidelines for the planning of the curriculum causes the ‘Sudoku Effect’.]
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Chapter 4Unwilling Recipients of Spoon-Feeding—The Unwanted Side Effects of University Reform

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 39 –49

[The introduction of ECTS credit points has not only produced complexities that even computers find hard to master but also has led to more classroom style teaching, an inflation of exams and less choices available for students.]
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Chapter 5Escape into Control Deviation

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 51 –62

[The ‘Sudoku Effect” makes the structure often so complex and contradictory that the values attributed to the higher education reform can often only be realised if the rules for Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes are actually ignored (or at least stretched) in practice.]
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Chapter 6The Bureaucratic Vicious Circle: The Intensification of the Sudoku Effect Through Permanent Reforms

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 63 –68

[The reaction to the deviations is not the abolishment of these complicated rules—or even that of the credit point system—but their continuous further refinement. The result is a ‘vicious circle of bureaucracy à la Bologna’ in which on one hand the bureaucratic rules for both academic staff and...
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Chapter 7The Fruitless Search for the ‘Guilty’: The Reasons Why Nobody has to Feel Responsible for the Effects of the Bologna Reform

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 69 –81

[The responsibility for the failure of the Bologna reform is diffused.]
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Chapter 8What to Do? Dealing with the Side Effects of the Bologna Reform

Kühl, Stefan

Pages: 83 –88

[Fundamental reform of the Bologna reform is unlikely because there is a lock in.]

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