Universities and Regions

Michael Shattock is Visiting Professor at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education the University of Oxford, UK. He leads the research programme on the governance of higher education in the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) at the University of Oxford, UK.Aniko Horvath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is Researcher at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) at the University of Oxford, UK.

This highly relevant volume asserts the importance associated with contextual dimensions - history, geography, disciplinary profiles, etc. - in both the governance of higher education and the various missions of higher education providers. Considering the complex interplay between regional and institutional dimensions, the authors make a compelling argument for the need for greater decentralization as a policy mechanism for fostering system diversity and in aiding regional differentiation.

• Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsList of Acronyms 1. Introduction2. The Problem With Regions3. The Student Context: Recruitment and Graduate Outcomes4. The Intersectoral Interface: Universities and Further Education5. The Impact of University Engagement on Regions6. Institutional Governance and Regional Strategy-Making7. Regional Engagement and Universities: Some European Comparisons—Norway, Ireland and Germany8. Tertiary Education and the Role of Regions: The Case for DecentralisationReferencesWorks CitedIndex