Issues in Higher Education – serie
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Knowledge Society vs. Knowledge Economy
Knowledge, Power, and Politics
Av S. Sörlin, H. Vessuri
Häftad, 2011
492 kr
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A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that …
Revitalizing Higher Education
Av Jamil Salmi, Adriaan Verspoor
Inbunden, 1994
1956 kr
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This volume focuses on the recent lessons of experience with reform and innovation in higher education that are most relevant to the challenges of developing countries. These lessons are explored in a series of twelve papers which analyze experience and issues in four priority areas. The first …
Government and Higher Education Relationships Across Three Continents
The Winds of Change
Av Guy Neave, Frans A. Van Vught
Inbunden, 1994
1849 kr
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New strategies and policies regarding higher education are needed to solve the present higher education crisis occurring in many developing countries. The important question is whether specific forms of government regulation are more effective than others in helping to solve this crisis. This book …
Mockers and Mocked
Comparative Perspectives on Differentation, Convergence and Diversity in Higher Education
Av V. Lynn Meek, L. Geodegebuure m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1258 kr
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With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. Diversity is seen as good because it supposedly increases the range of choices for students, matches the education provided to the needs and abilities of …
Emerging Patterns of Social Demand and University Reform
Through a Glass Darkly
Av David D. Dill, Barbara Sporn
Inbunden, 1995
1831 kr
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In times of rapid international political and economic change the great universities of Europe and North America are being transformed. Public expectations about access to higher education, government concerns about the role that universities can play in innovation and economic development, and the …
Higher Education and the Nation State
The International Dimension of Higher Education
Av Jeroen Huisman, G. Huisman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1516 kr
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This book contains a number of cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. Design, dynamics and outcomes of a variety of policies are studied at both the national and the institutional level. The theoretical perspectives on which the empirical studies are …
Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium
Av Werner Z. Hirsch, Lillian Weber
Inbunden, 1999
1814 kr
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In May 1998, twenty representatives from the higher education communities of the United States and Western Europe met in Glion, Switzerland to discuss the challenges facing higher education today and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. "Challenges Facing Higher Education at the …
Organising Innovative Research
The Inner Life of University Departments
Inbunden, 1998
1760 kr
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The major aim of this book is to contribute to the ongoing European debate on the future relationship between government and universities. The volume refutes the wide spread notion presently adopted by several European politicians and administrators, that the most efficient way to meet the threats …
Creating Entrepreneurial Universities
Organizational Pathways of Transformation
Häftad, 1998
510 kr
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Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used …
OECD, Globalisation and Education Policy
Av M. Henry, Bob Lingard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1778 kr
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The increasing significance of the OECD in the development of national education policies has received much attention in recent years. Although it is recognised that certain international agencies such as the OECD as key "globalizing agencies", have acquired the capacity to "persuade" nation states …
Higher Education Research
Its Relationship to Policy and Practice
Av Ulrich Teichler, Jan Sadlak
Inbunden, 2000
1435 kr
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"Higher Education Research" provides readers with an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the current state of higher education research and its relationship to policy and practice. The internationally acclaimed team of authors examine the impact of current policy and practice on the research …
Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education
Inbunden, 2000
1831 kr
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During the past three decades, there has been a substantial growth in the number of higher education institutions in developing countries. The majority of these institutions have adopted an approach to teaching and research modelled on the universities of the Western world. Consequently, Western …
Universities' Responsibilities to Society
International Perspectives
Av Guy Neave
Inbunden, 2000
1394 kr
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The Fourth Mid Term Conference of Heads of Universities was hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and took place between November 12th and 14th 1997. The occasion brought together heads and representatives of universities and of major national, regional and international bodies …
Access to Knowledge
New Information Technologies and the Emergence of the Virtual University
Av Tarcisio Della Santa, F.Ted Tschang
Inbunden, 2000
2063 kr
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This book examines how the higher education environment is being shaped by new information technologies, with a particular focus on technologies based in the Internet. This work will illustrate a vision of how virtual universities and their elements are emerging, and of how they can be shaped to …
Managing Reform in Universities
The Dynamics of Culture, Identity and Organisational Change
Av B. Stensaker, J. Välimaa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
536 kr
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This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today. Analyzing areas such as leadership, quality management, strategic thinking, collegiality and academic work, and from the perspective of different …
Widening Participation in Higher Education
Casting the Net Wide?
Inbunden, 2012
1064 kr
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This collection offers an authoritative, up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today across both the UK and internationally. The book charts the impact of global economic trends and recent policy developments for students, academics, providers and changing course provision.
Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western Europe
The Prince and His Pleasure
Av G. Neave
Inbunden, 2012
536 kr
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This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.
Changing Face of Academic Life
Analytical and Comparative Perspectives
Av J. Enders, E. de Weert
Inbunden, 2009
1095 kr
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Bringing together an international line-up of contributors, this collection provides a transnational examination of recent developments within the academic profession in the light of changes to higher education systems, globalization and marketization.
Innovation, Profit and the Common Good in Higher Education
The New Alchemy
Av J. Harpur
Inbunden, 2010
536 kr
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University ethics is everyone's business, and big business is what the university is all about whether in the US, Europe or the rest of the world. How this has come about is less important than that it has, and is being taken very seriously by global and national forces. The important issue …
Women, Universities, and Change
Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States
Av M. Sagaria
Häftad, 2012
492 kr
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This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Contemporary Debates
Av A. Amaral
Inbunden, 2014
1276 kr
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This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a global scale. The authors include Chief Executive Officers of Quality Agencies, policy analysts and leading scholars in Quality Evaluation and …
Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services
The European Welfare State and the Rise of the Knowledge Society
Av Teresa Carvalho, Rui Santiago
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges. This book analyses three professional groups involved in the academic and health sectors and how they are affected by different national Welfare State models such as Mediterranean, …
European Policy Implementation and Higher Education
Analysing the Bologna Process
Av Cristina Sin, Amélia Veiga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
959 kr
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This book presents a critical analysis of the implementation of the Bologna Process, its achievements and consequences, as well as its failures and lack of convergence problems. Over the last decade the implementation of the Bologna Process, an ambitious reform of European higher education systems, …
Managing Reform in Universities
The Dynamics of Culture, Identity and Organisational Change
Av B. Stensaker, J. Välimaa m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
586 kr
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This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today. Analyzing areas such as leadership, quality management, strategic thinking, collegiality and academic work, and from the perspective of different …
Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance
Commerce, the Services Directive and Governing Higher Education
Av Maria João Rosa, Cláudia S. Sarrico m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1487 kr
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This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently depending on the countries …
Managing Reform in Universities
The Dynamics of Culture, Identity and Organisational Change
Av B. Stensaker, J. Välimaa m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
536 kr
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This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today. Analyzing areas such as leadership, quality management, strategic thinking, collegiality and academic work, and from the perspective of different …
Widening Participation in Higher Education
Casting the Net Wide?
Häftad, 2012
1064 kr
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This collection offers an authoritative, up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today across both the UK and internationally. The book charts the impact of global economic trends and recent policy developments for students, academics, providers and changing course provision.
Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western Europe
The Prince and His Pleasure
Av G. Neave
Häftad, 2012
536 kr
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This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.
Innovation, Profit and the Common Good in Higher Education
The New Alchemy
Av J. Harpur
Häftad, 2010
551 kr
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University ethics is everyone's business, and big business is what the university is all about whether in the US, Europe or the rest of the world. How this has come about is less important than that it has, and is being taken very seriously by global and national forces. The important issue …
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Contemporary Debates
Av A. Amaral
Häftad, 2014
1276 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a global scale. The authors include Chief Executive Officers of Quality Agencies, policy analysts and leading scholars in Quality Evaluation and …
