Higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany

Higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is addressed in six papers written between the years 1981 and 1985. The papers are as follows: (1) "Changing the Pattern of Higher Education Systems: An Account of Access and Structural Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany in Comparative Perspective;" (2) "The Changing Labour Force and Expansion of Higher Education in the Federal Republic of Germany;" (3) "Federal Systems of Higher Education: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany;" (4) "Higher Education and Graduate Employment in the Federal Republic of Germany;" (5) "Further Education at Universities in the Federal Republic of Germany;" and (6) "University Staff in the Federal Republic of Germany." Topics include: the expansion of higher education after World War II and the access policy of West Germany and Western industrialized countries, ways of restructuring higher education to accommodate the growing number of students, five characteristics of German higher education that affect structural policy, five structural models for promoting access to higher education, the rationale of coordination of higher education at the national level in West Germany, the labor market for college graduates, adult education and continuing education, and the academic career and status of the college professoriate. (SW)