A sokféleség értelmezése és mérése
The evaluation and measurement of diversity, an attempt to categorize European higher education institutions

Summary/Abstract: Ildikó Hrubos begins her study entitled The evaluation and measurement of diversity, an attempt to categorize European higher education institutions by showing that during the process of the mass diffusion of higher education a differentiation between higher education institutions also began. This process accelerated following the year 2000 with the so-called Bologna Process and the globalization of higher education. The great diversity in objectives established, main activities, target client groups, academic performance and social prestige have created a confusing picture, since they make it difficult to study the way the sector really operates. The study briefly introduces the processes behind the phenomena and the varied attempts so far made to describe, analyze, handle and research them. She deals in more detail with the large-scale European project which aims to create categorizing and data-collection methods with strong theoretical and methodological bases, as well as the development of an organization to operate the system on a permanent basis. The Classifying European Institutions for Higher Education – CEIHE – project began in 2004 and the final stage (III) started in 2008. During the development of the model the well established and internationally renowned Carnegie Classification System, developed in the United States, was used as a model.

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