Transforming Higher Education: A Comparative Study (2nd edition)

✍ Scribed by Professor Ivar Bleiklie, Maurice Kogan (auth.), Maurice Kogan, Mary Henkel, Professor Marianne Bauer, Professor Ivar Bleiklie (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics 13
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book carries forward the findings of an international research project, first published in 2000, on the radical higher education reforms introduced since the 1970s. It is based upon documents, statistics and extensive interviews with politicians, institutional leaders and academics from a range of institutions and disciplines in three countries. It is one of only a handful of contemporary comparative studies that combine strong empirical research with theoretical analysis developed within a thematic rather than a country based framework.

Drawing together the implications of studies of Sweden, Norway and England in a set of comparative analyses, the authors assess the reforms of the higher education systems on three distinct levels, the state, the institution and the individual. They examine change in government policy, in the leadership and management of higher education institutions and the impact on academic identities and the academic profession.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Comparison and Theories....Pages 3-22
Higher Education Policies: Historical Overview....Pages 25-38
Policy Regimes and Policy Making....Pages 39-67
The State and Higher Education....Pages 69-84
Higher Education Institutions....Pages 85-100
Policy Change and the Academic Profession....Pages 103-126
Academic Identities....Pages 127-159
Change and Continuity: Some Conclusions....Pages 163-175
Back Matter....Pages 177-202

✦ Subjects

Higher Education; International and Comparative Education; Educational Policy and Politics