Values and value tradeoffs in higher education policy

✍ Scribed by Rune Premfors

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 912 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-2687
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00137397

✦ Synopsis

Public policies represent tradeoffs between values. Policy analysts should see one of their main tasks as identifying the nature of such tradeoffs, both as a general phenomenon and as they vary between specific policy areas. In this article five basic values of higher education are identified: equality, excellence, autonomy, accountability and efficiency. Their occurrence in Swedish higher education is analyzed, as well as the specific tradeoffs arrived at within the framework of that policy. * I am grateful to Professor Burton Clark of the U niversity of California at Los Angeles for providing me with the opportunity to write this article.