HIS employs nearly 300 people and is a service organisation for higher education. It is organized into 3 divisions: div. I develops administrative software for higher education institutions, div. II is concerned with research on higher education and div. III acts as a consultant to higher education institutions on organisational and structural matters.
Div. II (higher education research) has long-term expertise in a range of subject areas relevant to this proposal including university entrance, access to higher education & social selectivity, study conditions & quality, steering & financing, graduates & alumni, labour market entry, accreditation of prior learning, and lifelong learning. Div. II employs about 60 people making HIS the largest research institute in the field of higher education in Germany.
HIS has been involved in several international research projects and has been the international coordinator of EUROSTUDENT since its inception in 1996.
Website: http://www.his.de
Staff involved in the project:
Kai Mühleck studied political science, economics, and sociology at the Universities of Heidelberg (DE) and Manchester (UK). In 2001 he graduated at the University of Heidelberg. 2001-08 he worked as researcher and lecturer at Humboldt-University of Berlin (DE), since 2005 co-leading the German working group of the ISJP (International Social Justice Project). He received a doctorate in sociology at Humboldt-University in 2007.
Since 2008 Kai Mühleck is senior researcher at the Hanover-based HIS-Institute for Research on Higher Education (DE). At HIS he works for national as well as international projects, amongst others leading the project teams of EQUNET and TRACKIT. Moreover he is responsible for the acquisition of international projects and the institute’s contact person for international research collaborations.
Dorit Griga studied political science, economics and communication science at Freie Universität Berlin (DE) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES). From 2004 to 2007 she worked as student research assistant in the department for labour market policy and employment at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). After graduating at Freie Universität Berlin (M.A.) in 2007 she started working for the European lifelong learning project at Bertelsmann-Stiftung. Then, from 2008 to 2010 Dorit Griga worked as researcher at HIS – Institut for Research on Higher Education. At HIS Dorit Griga conducted research within the EQUNET-project as well as other projects dealing with the issue of tuition fees and their impacts on equity and quality within higher education. In September 2010 Dorit Griga started working as researcher at University of Bern (CH). There, she is currently preparing her Ph.D. thesis which will focus the issue of migrant specific inequalities in higher education within the European Union.
