Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education Processes and Outcomes

Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education Processes and Outcomes / by Harry de Boer, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Don F Westerheijden.

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly...

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Main Authors: de Boer, Harry (Author), File, Jon (Author), Huisman, Jeroen (Author), Seeber, Marco (Author), Vukasovic, Martina (Author), Westerheijden, Don F. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Higher education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Public policy.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational sociology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Structural Reform in Higher Education: An Introduction; Harry de Boer, Jon File, Don F. Westerheijden, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber & Martina Vukasovic
  • PART I. Horizontal Differentiation Processes
  • Chapter 2. Reform of the 'Fachhochschulen' in Austria; Attila Pausits
  • Chapter 3. Partial Horizontal Differentiation in Croatian Higher Education: How Ideas, Institutions and Interests Affect the Policy Process; Jelena Brankovic & Martina Vukasovic
  • Chapter 4. Strengthening Research at the Dutch 'Hogescholen': From Ideas to Institutionalization; Harry de Boer
  • Chapter 5. Pulling the Plug in a Bathtub: The Big Consequences of a Small Change in Norwegian Higher Education; Mari Elken & Nicoline Frølich
  • Chapter 6. The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland; Dominik Antonowicz, Marek Kwiek & Don F. Westerheijden
  • PART II: Vertical Differentiation Processes
  • Chapter 7. The Danish UNIK-Initiative: An NPM-Inspired Mechanism to Steer Higher Education; Kaare Aaagaard & Harry de Boer
  • Chapter 8. France: Initiatives for Excellence; Emmanuel Boudard & Don F. Westerheijden
  • Chapter 9. The International Campus of Excellence Initiative in Spain; Marco Seeber
  • PART III: Institutional Relationships
  • Chapter 10. Setting up Associations in Flemish Higher Education; Jeroen Huisman & Jelle Mampaey
  • Chapter 11. Finland: Mergers in the Context of Continuity; Terhi Nokkala & Jussi Välimaa
  • Chapter 12. Policy-Making for Structural Reforms in Welsh Higher Education Landscape; Nadine Zeeman & Paul Benneworth
  • Chapter 13. Structural Reform in European Higher Education: Concluding Reflections; Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Harry de Boer, Jon File and Don F. Westerheijden.

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