International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Alternative Frameworks for Coordination
Redaktion: Huisman, Jeroen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essential reading for policy makers, institutional leaders, managers, advisors, and scholars in the field of higher education, The Governance of Higher Education analyzes how higher education systems of governance have evolved in recent years. An authoritative overview that questions why some systems of governance have persisted while others have experienced patterns of change, it further looks at how governments shape the policy-making process in higher education in an effort to secure particular policy outcomes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135858148
• Artikelnr.: 38249394

Autorenporträt

Jeroen Huisman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations

Series Editors' Introduction

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Christopher Hood

Chapter 1: Coming to terms with governance in higher education, by Jeroen Huisman

Part I: The Application of Governance Frameworks

Chapter 2: Governance in Higher Education: An Analysis of the Italian Experience, by Gianfranco Rebora and Matteo Turri

Chapter 3: Governance in German Higher Education: Competition Versus Negotiation of Performance, by Dominic Orr and Michael Jaeger

Chapter 4: Governing Disciplines: Reform and Placation in the Austrian University System, by Claudia Meister-Scheytt and Alan Scott

Chapter 5: Prometheus (on the) Rebound? Freedom and the Danish Steering System, by Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg

Chapter 6: Reform Policies and Change Processes in Europe, by Catherine Paradeise, Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Gaële Goastellec, Svein Michelsen, Emanuela Reale & Don F. Westerheijden

Chapter 7: Policy Networks and Research on Higher Education Governance and Policy, by Lucia Padure and Glen A. Jones

Part II: Variations on a Governance Theme

Chapter 8: Effectiveness or Economy? Policy Drivers in UK Higher Education, 1985-2005, by Roger Brown

Chapter 9: Good Governance and Australian Higher Education: An Analysis of a Neo-liberal Decade, by Leo Goedegebuure, Martin Hayden and V. Lynn Meek

Chapter 10: Viewing Recent US Governance Reform Whole: 'Decentralization' in a distinctive context, by Michael K. McLendon and James C. Hearn

Chapter 11: Mapping out Discourses on Higher Education Governance, by António Magalhães and Alberto Amaral

Chapter 12: Irish Higher education and the Knowledge Economy, by Kelly Coate and Iain Mac Labhrainn

Part III: The Invisible Hand of Governance

Chapter 13: The Effectiveness of a Dutch Policy Reform: Academic Responses to Imposed Changes, by Harry F. de Boer

Chapter 14: The Graduate System in Transition: External Ph.D. Researchers in a Managerial Context?, by Christine Teelken, Kees Boersma and Peter Groenewegen

Chapter 15: Governance and the Autonomous University: Changing Institutional Leadership in UK and Australian Higher Education, by David Smith and Jonathan Adams

Index

Rezensionen

"This text provides an exceptionally detailed account of the evolutionary nature of university governance in a variety of national settings."--Journal for International and Global Studies