FHERC offered a playful program at the Researchers’ Night
On the 29th of September 2023, as part of the event series called Researchers’ Night, the Future of Higher Education Research Centre (FHERC) held a fun and inspiring workshop with the title: The Future’s Business Higher Education- the Futures of Higher Education. The aim was not only to promote science and research careers but also to help recognise the importance of future orientation and system thinking. The game invited the participants to an imaginary expert center of an expedition tasked with preparing a new planet…
FHERC researcher attends CLADAG conference for the first time
The CLAssification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) promotes advanced methodological research in multivariate statistics with a special vocation in Data Analysis and Classification. Since 1997, the organisation has held international conference biennially with hundreds of participants to support the interchange of ideas in these fields of research, including the dissemination of concepts, numerical methods, algorithms, computational and applied results. This year the conference took place on the campus of Salerno University from 11th to 13th of September. Most of…
New publication in an international case study book
Zsuzsanna Géring, head of the FHERC, prepared a case study on the student Mentoring Program running at the BBS FFA faculty, which was included in a renowned international volume, among selected initiatives supporting students from around the world. In August, “Transferring Lives at the Institutional Level. Equity Promotion Initiatives Across the World” book was published. This is a book that specifically collected higher education initiatives supporting student success and equality from around the world. Among the four programs selected for the Central and Eastern Europe…
The role and agency of students in business school discourses – new article
Members of our research centre Réka Tamássy, Zsuzsanna Géring, Gábor Király, Réka Plugor and Márton Rakovics published a new article in the Journal of International Education in Business. In the article “The portrayal of the role and agency of students and higher education institutions in highly ranked business school discourses“, the researchers analysed the ’about us’ section of the top 100 business schools’ websites from the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2019 Business and Economics list. Their study aimed to investigate how highly ranked…
The leaders of FHERC were guests at University of Nottingham
The director of FHERC, Zsuzsanna Géring, and the scientific director, Gábor Király, were invited by the ‘School of Education’ institute of the University of Nottingham. During the visit, they held methodological and professional workshops in connection with the research being carried out at the center. In addition, they also participated in a meeting of the higher education research group operating within the School of Education institute, where they discussed possible research collaborations. Furthermore, they shared their experiences on the process and management of the transformation…
FHERC horizon scanning methodology article among the most downloaded
Zsuzsanna Géring’s, Gábor Király’s and Réka Tamássy’s article called ’Are you a newcomer to horizon scanning? A few decision points and methodological reflections on the process’ is among the most downloaded Futures & Foresight Science papers. The acknowledgement took into account papers that were published in 2021 and downloaded the most in the following 12 months. This article of our Research Centre presents the crucial decision points that could emerge during the process of horizon scanning methodology. It is one of our altogether nine articles…
Future and agency frames – new article in a high-ranking journal
Gábor Király, Zsuzsanna Géring and Réka Tamássy published a new article entitled ’Future and agency frames: how business schools construct the term future and what they claim to do about it?’ in the Journal of Futures Studies (Q2). In the article, the researchers analysed the Times Higher Education 2019 Top 100 business schools’ online texts to reveal how higher education institutions discursively construct the future and how do they see their own role in it. Király and his colleagues applied qualitative textual analysis on the…
Opportunities and challenges in higher education – scenario workshop
In 2022, the Future of Higher Education Research Centre prepared a report entitled “Scenarios about the future of higher education in 2022“. The report outlines four possible futures for higher education along two dimensions, the “internal structure” of education and the flexibility level of programs. These scenarios were discussed by 8 invited higher education professionals from three institutions (University of Szeged, Corvinus University of Budapest and Budapest Business School – University of Applied Sciences). In addition to their feelings and impressions, the lecturers and researchers discussed the…
Sustainability at leading business schools – new article
Sára Csillag, Gábor Király, Márton Rakovics and Zsuzsanna Géring published their new article in Futures. In the article, entitled Agents for sustainable futures? The (unfulfilled) promise of sustainability at leading business schools, the researchers analysed the portrayal of ’sustainability’ in top-ranked business schools’ online education-related content. With the help of mixed-methods textual analysis, they found that almost half of the leading business schools do not mention sustainability in their education-related online texts, neither in an economic or social context. And while the remaining institutions do…
The portrayal of the future as legitimacy construction: discursive strategies in highly ranked business schools’ external communication – new article
Zsuzsanna Géring, Réka Tamássy, Gábor Király and Márton Rakovics published a new article in Higher Education, one of the highest ranked scientific journals in the field of higher education research. In the paper Géring, director of Future of Higher Education Research Centre, and her colleagues investigate how highly ranked business schools construct their legitimacy claims by analysing their online organisational communication. The researchers argue that in the case of higher education institutions in general, and business schools in particular, the discursive formation of legitimacy claims…