Editors:
- Includes case studies of structural reform in European higher education systems
- Offers unique insights into national reform processes
- Adopts a comparative approach to reforms in higher education
Part of the book series: Educational Governance Research (EGTU, volume 8)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal. It focuses in particular on the governance of the systems and institutions in these countries. The book shows that each of the national reform processes has been characterised by its own specific pathways embedded in the country’s specific socio-economic contexts and cultures, but also has a number of features in common with the other countries and processes. The first chapter of the book presents a conceptual framework to analyse the reform processes as an ’implementation game’ played by several actors with diverse interests. The second chapter describes the national reform processes of the six selected countries, giving a voice to the individual university rectors and officials who played an important role during the reform processes. Their stories constitute a vivid narrative of the government drivers of reform and of the rationales of the institutions as main partners in the reform processes. These narratives are analysed, complemented by, and contrasted with a review of the literature on the subject in the third chapter. The final chapter consist of concluding remarks and lessons learned.
Keywords
- higher education governance reforms
- change the higher education system
- funding of the higher education system
- management of university staff
- external stakeholders in institutional governance
- evaluation of the reform process
- structural reforms
- advocacy coalition framework
- political entrepreneurs
- reform impact
Editors and Affiliations
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XREAP - Reference Network for Applied Economics (Bosch i Gimpera Foundation - University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
Karsten Krüger
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Fundación CYD and University of Barcelona (Barcelona Institute of Economics), Barcelona, Spain
Martí Parellada
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Columbus Association, Geneva, Switzerland
Daniel Samoilovich
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European University Association, Brussels, Belgium
Andrée Sursock
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance Reforms in European University Systems
Book Subtitle: The Case of Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal
Editors: Karsten Krüger, Martí Parellada, Daniel Samoilovich, Andrée Sursock
Series Title: Educational Governance Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72212-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72211-5Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10169-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72212-2Published: 21 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-9548
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership