Overview
- Entails case studies of higher education policies from construction to implementation
- Offers a mix of conceptual papers and empirical approaches that illustrate the proposed conceptual perspectives
- Adopts a comparative approach regarding reforms in higher education
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 41)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Designing Policies in Higher Education
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The Complexities of Policy Design in Higher Education – Some Lessons from Comparative Research
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Policy Effects at the Meso Level
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Competition between higher education institutions
- Developments in higher education
- Distribution of power in higher education
- Effectiveness of reforms in higher education
- Funding of higher education
- Governance of higher education
- Impact of reforms in higher education
- Implementation of reforms in higher education
- Institutional Autonomy
- Institutional differentiation
- Institutions, interests and ideas
- Missions of research institutions
- Missions of universities
- NPM
- New Public Management
- Policies in higher education
- Policy design in higher education
- Policy instruments in higher education
- Policy reforms in higher education
- Power redistribution in higher education
- Quality assurance in higher education
- Reforms in higher education
- Traditional academic norms and values
About this book
This book analyzes the reforms that led to a differentiated landscape of higher education systems after university practices and governance were considered poorly adapted to contemporary settings and to their new missions. This has led to a growing institutional differentiation in many higher education systems. This differentiation has certainly contributed to making the institutional landscape more diverse across and within higher education systems. This book covers this diversity. Each part corresponds to a different but complementary way of looking at reforms and highlights what can be learnt on specific cases by adopting a specific perspective. The first part analyzes the ongoing reforms and their evolution, identifies their internal contradictions, as well as the redefinitions and reorientations they experience, and reveals the ideas, representations, ideologies and theories on which they are built. The second part includes comparison between countries but also other comparative perspectives such as how one reform is developed in different regions of the same country, as well as how comparable reforms are declined to different sectors. The last part addresses the impact of the reforms. What is known about the effectiveness of such instruments on higher education systems? This part shows that reforms provoke new power games and reconfigure power relations.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforming Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Public Policy Design and Implementation
Editors: Christine Musselin, Pedro N. Teixeira
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7028-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7027-0Published: 22 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0013-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7028-7Published: 07 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 233
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education