Asia

Australia

Europe

Latin America

US

 Centers in Asia

Comparative Education Research Centre
CERC builds on the Faculty's considerable expertise in comparative studies in education, with the following aims: to facilitate, participate in and initiate a wide range of research projects with comparative perspectives; to support comparative research in education, and to disseminate information throughout the region and further afield through publications, newsletters, research activities, including seminars, symposiums, conferences, etc.; to establish and maintain a wide range of contacts with educational researchers and research institutions in China, in the region and internationally; to provide a centre upon which institutions and organisations within the region can draw for human and other resources for contract research, consultancies, and training in research methods.
- Website: http://www.aca-secretariat.be/01about/general_info.htm

 Centers in Australia

Monash Centre for Research in International Education (MCRIE)
The Monash Centre for Research in International Education (MCRIE) was founded in 1997. MCRIE is an official Monash University centre dedicated to teaching, research and services in the field of International Education in the context of globalisation. MCRIE offers a postgraduate teaching program in International Education with core studies in globalisation and education, internationalising the curriculum and international education markets.
- Website: http://www.education.monash.edu.au/centres/mcrie/

 Centers in Europe

Academic Co-operation Association (ACA)
The Academic Co-operation Association (ACA) is an independent European organisation dedicated to the management, analysis and improvement of education and training co-operation within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world. Its main focus is on higher education, but it also covers other education sectors, and training.
- Website: http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/about_cheps/

Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS)
CHEPS is an interdisciplinary research-institute located at the faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy of the Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands. Since 1984, CHEPS has undertaken and published a considerable amount of research on higher education especially at system and institutional levels. CHEPS seeks to increase our understanding of institutional, national and international issues that bear upon Higher Education.
- Website: http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/about_cheps/

Civic Education Project
The Civic Education Project (CEP), an international non-profit organization, has supported grassroots efforts to reform higher education in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia since 1991. In 2004 CEP completed its work in Europe and Eurasia and is now taking its highly successful programs to other world regions.
- Website: http://www.cep.org.hu/

Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service
CHEMS was initiated in 1993 as part of the Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme (CHESS) through the Commonwealth Secretariat. Throughout that period of time, CHEMS has been supported by the ACU and has received pump-priming funds from the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC), from UNESCO and the UK's Overseas Development Administration.

Between 1994 and 2001, CHEMS undertook some 70 consultancies, advising and helping universities, governments and higher education agencies world-wide to tackle and solve their management problems. CHEMS ceased operating as a consultancy service following the retirement of the Director, John Fielden, in January 2001.
- Website: http://www.acu.ac.uk/chems/chems.html

European Centre for Higher Educaton
UNESCO-CEPES (the European Centre for Higher Education/Centre Europ?n pour l'Enseignement Sup?ieur) was established in September 1972 with a view to promoting co-operation in higher education among Member States of the Europe Region (the countries of Europe, North America, and Israel). The activities of the Centre are focused foremost on higher education in Central and Eastern Europe and?the Director of UNESCO-CEPES also serves as the Representative of UNESCO in Romania.?
- Website: http://www.cepes.ro/cepes/mission.htm

The Institute of International Education (IIE) Stockholm University
IIE is one of the few institutes in the Nordic countries specializing in international and comparative education. After more than thirty years in this field, IIE is now well recognized for its contribution to research and training. IIE is an 'international' institute, in the true meaning of the word. It has successfully created a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary research and teaching environment which attracts a number of visiting scholars and lecturers as well as students from many parts of the world.
- Website: http://www.interped.su.se/

International Centre for Higher Education Research, INCHER-Kassel
Since 1982 the Center for Research on Higher Education and Work (Wissenschaftliches Zentrum f? Berufs- und Hochschulforschung) is a permanent unit of the University. The Centre was founded as a research unit. Teaching does not belong to its responsibilities. Nevertheless the professors at the center are also members of the departments of Kassel University and teach there and senior researchers at the Center teach as part-time lecturers as well.?The Center aims to contribute both to the theoretical and methodological advancement of research and the provision of practice-relevant systematic knowledge on higher education.
- Website: http://www.uni-kassel.de/wz1/e_english/

Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
The Society for Research into Higher Education is a UK-based international learned society concerned to advance understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship. The Society aims to be the leading international society in the field, as to both the support and the dissemination of research.
- Website: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/

 Centers in Latin America

Red de Investigadores Sobre Educación Superior (RISEU)
La Red de Investigadores Sobre la Educación Superior está integrada por académicos dedicados al estudio de la educación superior e incluye, de manera principal, a especialistas del ámbito latinoamericano y español. Los propósitos de la red son:

• Construir un sitio de articulación de los académicos dedicados al estudio sistemático de la educación superior.
• Conformar un espacio interinstitucional e internacional que propicie el desarrollo de trabajos de investigaci? en el campo de la educaci? superior.
• Apoyar las tareas de investigación a través del desarrollo y difusión de recursos documentales y de información.

 Centers in the US

Center for Policy Studies
The Center for Policy Analysis conducts research and convenes researchers and policy makers to study issues of interest to ACE members and the higher education community. Activities of the Center focus on student financial aid, distributed education, and teacher preparation, among other topics.
- Website: http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CPA

Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)
The Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research and policy center on higher education oriented to California, the nation, and comparative international issues. The Center’s mission is to produce and support multi-disciplinary scholarly perspectives on strategic issues in higher education, to conduct relevant policy research, to promote the development of a community of scholars and policymakers engaged in policy-oriented discussion, and to serve the public as a resource on higher education.
- Website: http://cshe.berkeley.edu

Comparative and Global Studies in Education
The Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education (CCGSE) is a GSE-wide umbrella for coordinating the courses, academic programs, visiting scholars, and scholarly activities of the GSE faculty and students interested in international comparative and global studies in education. It publishes occasional newsletters, and maintains a library with comparative education references. It also provides a home for visiting scholars.

The Center also houses GSE's principal funded research project in comparative education, the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project (http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance/). This is a six-year Ford Foundation-financed project that is compiling a worldwide database on the shift of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students, as well as the array of government and non-governmental policies designed to maintain higher educational accessibility in the face of this shift.
- Website: http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/DC/CCGSE/index.html

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
The Higher Education Research Institute is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Institute serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. HERI's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. Visiting scholars, faculty, and graduate students have made use of HERI facilities and research resources since its affiliation with UCLA in 1973. The Institute's holdings include more than a hundred datasets that are regularly maintained for analysis of postsecondary education.
- Website: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html

The Institute for Higher Education Policy
The Institute for Higher Education Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education through public policy research and other activities that inform and influence the policymaking process. These activities include policy reports and studies, seminars and meetings, and capacity building activities such as strategic planning. The primary audiences of the Institute are those who make or inform decisions about higher education: government policymakers, senior institutional leaders, researchers, funders, the media, and private sector leaders.
- Website: http://www.ihep.com/

The Learning Productivity Network
The Learning Productivity Network was founded in 1995 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. D. Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the State University of New York and university professor of higher and comparative education, is the founder and director of the Network. A further explanation of Network activities can be found here. The Learning Productivity Network involves both research and policy initiatives. These include a quarterly newsletter, a national steering committee, an electronic discussion group, and several ongoing research projects.
- Website: http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/lpn/

Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE)
PROPHE is a global network dedicated to building knowledge about one of the most striking tendencies in higher education around the world--the development of large and often vibrant private sectors. PROPHE's knowledge mission focuses on discovery, analysis, and dissemination, as well as creation of an international base of researchers . PROPHE neither represents nor promotes private higher education. The core activity is scholarship, which, in turn, aims to inform public discussion and policymaking..
- Website: http://www.albany.edu/dept/eaps/prophe/index.html

Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
The Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER) is home to sponsored research projects that examine contemporary higher education planning and policy issues from a wide range of analytical perspectives, including those of social scientists and policy audiences in the United States and abroad.
- Website: http://siher.stanford.edu/