Professor Hans Schuetze
- Honorary Professor (School of Education)
Biography
Hans G. Schuetze holds a PhD in international and comparative public law from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and a LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked in Germany as a lawyer, legal policy expert at two levels of government and part-time lecturer.
Between 1977 and 1986 he was a researcher and policy analyst at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris. The main foci of his work were on policies of Higher Education, vocational and professional education and training, as well the concept, organization and financing of Lifelong Learning
From 1991 to 2006 he was Professor of Higher Education, and Research Associate, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (now professor emeritus). From 2006 to 2017 he worked as a lawyer in private practice in Hannover, Germany, specializing on legal issues in education, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
He was a Visiting Professor at public universities in Austria, France, Germany, Japan and China. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal for Adult and Continuing Education (SAGE), and of Frontiers of Education in China (Springer), and a Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Research interests
For many years, Hans has specifically studied and explored different themes of reforms in Higher Education. Starting in 2003, he has organized, in close collaboration with colleagues in other countries, an annual series of International Workshops on Higher Education Reform. Sixteen of such workshops have taken place in eight different countries, five in Europe, four in Asia and seven in North America. A seventeenth was scheduled to take place at Glasgow University in 2020 - which had to be postponed because of the COVID epidemic.
Additional information
Visiting professorships (university/organization and dates) [from 2000 only]
Jan – April 2000 |
Institute of Higher Education Research, University of Hiroshima (Japan). Doctoral seminar. |
May – June 2001 |
University of Hannover (Germany), Faculty of Commerce, Graduate Seminar: Introduction into the Economics of Education |
April – June 2002 |
University of Graz (Austria), Faculty of Education, Doctoral Seminar: Concepts and Policies of Lifelong Learning |
May – June 2003 |
University of Graz (Austria), Faculty of Education, Graduate course: Lifelong Learning: Organization and Finance |
April – June 2004 |
University of Klagenfurt (at Vienna, Austria),: Graduate course: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning |
Oct - Nov 2006 and March/April 2012 |
Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City (Mexico) (Doctoral seminars) |
Dec 2005 - March 2006 |
University of Rouen (France). Graduate course: La formation professionelle initiale et continue – Une comparison internationale |
Nov 2006 - Aug 2014 |
University of Oldenburg (Germany). Graduate course: Legal Issues in Education |
April - July 2009 |
University of Duisburg-Essen. Visiting DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) professorship. Three graduate courses: International Adult Education; International Organizations and the internationalization of education; Models and meanings of Lifelong Learning. |
Sept 2017 - Dec 2018 |
Visiting professor, Renmin University, Beijing. Courses taught: Comparative Higher Education; Legal issues in Education. |
Faculty and administrative positions at UBC
- Professor, Higher Education Research and Policy, Dept of Educational Studies (1991-2006)
- Research Fellow (from 1991) and Director (2002-2006), Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training
- Member, Centre for European Studies, and of Institute for Asian Studies, 2000 - present
Editorships
- Editorial Committee, Metropolitan Universities (USA), 1991 – 1996
- Editorial Board, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (UK), 2000 to present
- Editorial Board, Frontiers of Education in China, 2011 – present
Memberships
- Deutscher Juristentag (German Lawyers’ Association), 1972 to present
- Statistic Canada Advisory Board on Science and Technology Statistics, 1998 to 2012
- Higher Education Research Consortium (CHER), 1992 to 2008
- Pascal International Observatory, 2006 to present
- Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), 1992 to present
- Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 1992 to present
Distinctions
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, later Honorary Professor, Department of Adult and Continuing Education and School of Education, University of Glasgow, 1998-present;
- Distinguished Member Award, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (2009);
- Lifetime Contribution Award, Comparative and International Education Society (Higher Education Group), 2011