Accountability in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Global Perspectives on Trust and Power
Redaktion: Stensaker, Bjorn; Harvey, Lee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136932366
• Artikelnr.: 42513599

Autorenporträt

Bjørn Stensaker is research professor at NIFU STEP - The Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in Oslo. Lee Harvey is professor at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and former director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation at Sheffield Hallam University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview of the book, Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey
2. Accountability: Understandings and challenges, Bjørn Stensaker and Lee
Harvey
Part I. An overview of accountability schemes in different regions
3. Accountability in Australia: More power to government and market,
Jeanette Baird
4. Accountability in Africa: A disciplinary power in African higher
education systems, Gerald Wangenge-Ouma & Patrício V. Langa
5. Accountability in China: Primitive attempts, Shuiyun Liu
6. Accountability in Eastern Europe: Becoming like everywhere else? Paul
Temple
7. Accountability in Western Europe: Shifting quality assurance paradigms,
Andrée Sursock
8. Accountability in Latin America: Focusing on quality assurance and
funding mechanisms, Maria-José Lemaitre
9. Accountability in the United States: Sorting through an American muddle
, Robert Zemsky
Part II. International trends, challenges and responses to accountability
initiatives
10. Accountability and Cross-border Higher Education: Dynamics, trends and
challenges, Robin Middlehurst
11. Transnational Accountability Initiatives: The case of the EUA-audits,
Alberto Amaral and Maria João Rosa
12. Managerial and Political Strategies for Handling Accountability,
William F. Massy
13. Conclusions and reflections, Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey