Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes and Outcomes

✍ Scribed by Harry de Boer, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Don F Westerheijden (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 305
Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly requires governments to change the higher education landscape to achieve their set objectives. Changes can include merger processes, the introduction of a new sector of higher education or a new type of higher education institution or excellence initiative. This book explores the current understanding of how successful such comprehensive reforms have been through an examination of eleven reform cases in European countries. For each reform, the different phases of the policy process – policy objectives, design, implementation, policy tools and evaluation – are systematically described and analysed to provide an overview of the factors that contribute to the success or failure of the reforms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Structural Reform in European Higher Education: An Introduction....Pages 1-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Reform of the Fachhochschulen in Austria....Pages 31-51
Partial Horizontal Differentiation in Croatian Higher Education: How Ideas, Institutions and Interests Shape the Policy Process....Pages 53-73
Strengthening Research at the Dutch ‘Hogescholen’: From Ideas to Institutionalization....Pages 75-94
Pulling the Plug in a Bathtub: The Big Consequences of a Small Change in Norwegian Higher Education....Pages 95-117
The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland....Pages 119-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Danish UNIK Initiative: An NPM-Inspired Mechanism to Steer Higher Education....Pages 141-159
France: Initiatives for Excellence....Pages 161-182
The International Campus of Excellence Initiative in Spain....Pages 183-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Setting Up Associations in Flemish Higher Education....Pages 205-223
Finnish mergers: Change in the Context of Continuity....Pages 225-244
Policy-Making for Structural Reforms in the Welsh Higher Education Landscape....Pages 245-268
Structural Reforms in European Higher Education: Concluding Reflections....Pages 269-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-303

✦ Subjects

Higher Education;Educational Policy and Politics;Administration, Organization and Leadership;Public Policy;International and Comparative Education;Sociology of Education

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