Reform and Change in Higher Education: Analysing Policy Implementation (Higher Education Dynamics)

✍ Scribed by Åse Gornitzka, Maurice Kogan, Alberto Amaral

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of implementation analysis in higher education and an extensive review of relevant recent literature. Coverage analyzes the effective and specific complexities of the implementation of higher education policies in several countries, including: Australia, Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
OVERVIEW......Page 30
1. From Policy Implementation to Policy Change: A Personal Odyssey......Page 31
2. Implementation Analysis in Higher Education......Page 49
3. The Implementation Game......Page 71
NATIONAL CASE STUDIES......Page 80
4. The Implementation of the Norwegian College Reform......Page 81
5. The Legacy of 1981: An Assessment of the Long-term Implications of the Reductions in Funding Imposed in 1981 on Institutional Management in UK Higher Education......Page 95
6. From Paper to Practice: Two Reforms and Their Consequences in Dutch Higher Education......Page 108
7. Implementation of Higher Education Policies: A Portuguese Example......Page 128
8. Two Decades of Change in Spanish Universities: Learning the Hard Way......Page 146
9. University Reform in Italy: Fears, Expectations and Contradictions......Page 164
10. Implementing Comprehensive National Higher Education Reforms: The Australian Reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins, 1987–90......Page 180
11. The Changing Role of the State in Mexican Higher Education: From the Crisis of Ineffectual Populism to New Forms of System Coordination......Page 197
12. Great Expectations, Mixed Governance Approaches and Unintended Outcomes: The Post-1994 Reform of South African Higher Education......Page 216
13. Equity Policy in Australian Higher Education: A Case of Policy Stasis......Page 236
14. Social Dynamics of Higher Education Reforms: The Case of Finland......Page 254
15. Backlash or Modernisation? Two Reform Cycles in Austrian Higher Education......Page 277
16. The Push for Accountability: Policy Influences and Actors in American Higher Education......Page 294
17. From Low Income and Minority Access to Middle Income Affordability: A Case Study of the US Federal Role in Providing Access to Higher Education......Page 311
18. Implementing the Triple Helix: The Academic Response to Changing University–Industry–Government Relations in Sweden......Page 331
19. Profiling Comprehensiveness? Strategy Formulation and Effects of Strategic Programmes at Traditional Universities......Page 349