Issues in Higher Education


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The OECD, Globalisation and Education Policy
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This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.
Access to Knowledge
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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 illustrates a vision of how virtual universities and their elements are emerging, and of how they can be shaped to the needs of...
Universities' Responsibilities to Society
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Talks about higher education world-wide and in all its manifestations. This work deals with three broad sub-themes: university and development: anticipating change; universities and the international knowledge enterprise; and, academic freedom and university autonomy: pre-requisites for the...
Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education
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There is an urgency to rediscover local knowledge and wisdom as universities and their communities respond to globalisation. This work presents an insightful account of the role of indigenous knowledge in higher education institutions across a number of societies.
Higher Education Research
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Provides readers with an overview of the state of higher education research and its relationship to policy and practice. This work draws upon developments in higher education research in Australia, Canada, Japan and Latin America to provide a comparative perspective on the state of higher...
Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium
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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 and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. This work presents the collection of papers...
Higher Education and the Nation State
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Contains cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. This work studies the design, dynamics and outcomes of a variety of policies both at the national and the institutional level. It also includes comparisons that are made within Europe, and between...
Creating Entrepreneurial Universities
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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...
Organising Innovative Research
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Contributes to the European debate on the relationship between government and universities. In developing general policy arguments, introduced in the opening chapters and summed up in the concluding discussion, this book examines empirically the "cultures" of four innovative and three stagnant...
Mockers and Mocked
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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. This volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from a theoretical and empirical perspective in a...
Emerging Patterns of Social Demand and University Reform
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In times of international political and economic change the great universities of Europe and North America are being transformed. The papers of this volume are the outcome of the process of discussions, which took place during the 1995 international symposium on the future role of the university...
Revitalizing Higher Education
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Focuses on the  lessons of experience with reform and innovation in higher education that are most relevant to the challenges of developing countries. This work analyzes experience and issues in four priority areas and concludes with a case study of the effects of the implementation of a...
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