University of Twente,
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS)

CHEPS is an interdisciplinary research-institute at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. It is one of the leading centres in the field of higher education policy internationally.

Since 1984, CHEPS has published an extensive range of research on higher education especially at system and institutional levels and has co-ordinated major research and policy projects at a European level. One of its goals is to contribute to the identification of practically relevant answers to the challenges confronting higher education systems and institutions through an interaction between basic and applied research and disseminating and sharing expertise via a range of education, training and consultancy activities, including programmes to develop leadership and management in higher education institutions in 20 countries. Particular fields of expertise include higher education governance, finance, quality assurance and research policy.

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