Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance

Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance
Title Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance PDF eBook
Author Alberto Amaral
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 527
Release 2023-10-06
Genre Education
ISBN 1800888074

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This ground-breaking Handbook examines the evolution of university autonomy and governance by tracking the changing relationship between higher education institutions and the state. Through unique historical analyses, contributors provide important insights into the position of students, academics, and universities in today’s society and map potential future directions of travel for the sector.

Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education

Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education
Title Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education PDF eBook
Author William Locke
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 397
Release 2011-06-01
Genre Education
ISBN 9400711409

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External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. This book analyzes recent changes in institutional governance and management in higher education and their impact on the academy and academic work. It draws on findings from an international study based on a survey of academics in eighteen countries. It opens with a chapter outlining the key issues, drivers and challenges that inform contemporary discourse around academic work and the profession in general. It then focuses on national case studies, comparing changes in the top tier with the lower tiers of national systems, public and private institutions, and other differentiating factors appropriate in each country, which include mature and emerging higher education systems. It concludes by proposing a series of generalizations about the contemporary status of governance and management of institutions of higher education.

Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education

Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
Title Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education PDF eBook
Author Mukerji, Siran
Publisher IGI Global
Pages 903
Release 2013-08-31
Genre Education
ISBN 1466644591

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The integration of new technology and global collaboration has undoubtedly transformed learning in higher education from the traditional classroom setting into a domain of support services, academic programs, and educational products which are made available to learners. The Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education is a unique compilation of the most recent research done by higher education professionals in the areas of policy, governance, technology, marketing, and leadership development. This publication succeeds in highlighting the most important strategies and policies for professionals, policymakers, administrators, and researchers interested in higher education management.

University Governance

University Governance
Title University Governance PDF eBook
Author Catherine Paradeise
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 323
Release 2009-02-07
Genre Education
ISBN 1402095155

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Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies. While university systems are deeply embedded in national settings, the ex post rationale of still on-going reforms is surprisingly uniform and “de-nationalized”. They promote (1) the “organizational turn” of universities, to varying extent substituting collegial loosely coupled entities by “integrated, goal-oriented entities deliberately choosing their own actions (and therefore open to differentiation), that can thus be held responsible for what they do” (2) the diversification of stakeholders, supposedly offering solutions to problems as various as the democratisation of universities, the shrinking of State budget resources and the diversification of university missions offering answers to changes in the making and in the use of science. When it comes to accounting for these reforms, two grand narratives of public management share the floor. NPM implies a strengthening of the capacity of the core State to direct public services organizations through management by objectives and results or contractualization, assessment, evaluation and. “Governance” focuses on “network-based” governance systems, where coordinating power and control are collectively shared between the major ‘social actors or partners’ at all levels of the decision-making system. Our results suggest that all higher education systems under study were more or less transformed according to both these narratives. It is therefore needed to understand how they combine or create contradictions. This leads us to test a third neo-weberian model. This model reaffirms the role of the State, of representative democracy, (central, regional and local), of public law (suitably modernized), preserves the idea of a public service with a distinctive status, culture and terms and conditions. It shifts from an internal orientation to bureaucratic rules towards an external orientation in meeting citizens’ needs and wishes by means of standardization of work processes and their products, based on a distinctive public service and a particular legal order survived as the foundations beneath the various packages of modernizing reforms. This book traces the national dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools in seven European higher education and research systems, using these narratives to interpret and test the actual changes and the degree of national specificities and European convergence. This book is not a sum of national chapters like other presumably comparative. It does not intend to tell once again the story of the transformation of the relationships between the state and universities. It tries to use Higher education system to discuss issues on state intervention and steering and more generally the NPM, governance and neo-weberian models in a specific field. Furthermore, this book intends breaking the walls between specialists in higher education and specialist in public management and research policy. This well rooted division of labour is less that ever justified as the university mission in research (fundamental, applied, strategic) is underscored by commentors and reformers themselves. For that reason, we have chosen to observe the consequences of the dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools on two specific issues related to the development of research training and organizing within universities: the transformation of research funding on the one hand and the expansion of graduate studies and doctoral schools on the other.

The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management

The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management
Title The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management PDF eBook
Author S. G. Redding
Publisher
Pages 553
Release 2019
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0198822901

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This Handbook examines the main challenges facing higher education systems in an increasingly turbulent and interconnected world, exploring how higher education institutions are managed in changing conditions, and the societal implications of different approaches to change.

Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance

Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance
Title Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance PDF eBook
Author Alberto Amaral
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 323
Release 2013-11-11
Genre Education
ISBN 9401599467

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This is the most comprehensive international discussion of higher education governance ever published. It presents a critical analysis of governance issues and reforms in: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the USA. The book explores different theoretical perspectives and presents new empirical evidence on system and institutional governance issues.

Organization & Governance in Higher Education

Organization & Governance in Higher Education
Title Organization & Governance in Higher Education PDF eBook
Author M. Christopher Brown
Publisher Pearson Learning Solutions
Pages 628
Release 2000
Genre Education
ISBN

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Comprises a collection of 40 readings to aid in understanding the multiple nuances of how colleges or postsecondary educational institutions are organized, governed, and administered. Areas addressed are classic organization theory, traditional administrative and governance models, campus climate an