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Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
This book provides the first academically rigorous description and critical analysis of the Higher Education system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and of the vision, strategies …
Oxford, the Collegiate University
Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges …
Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific
This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the …
Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector
2007b: 115 ff.; Jansen 2007c: 236 ff.). “Governance patterns” here means a chain of interconnected mechanisms which can be observed empirically. “Governance p- terns” can be …
Higher Education in the BRICS Countries
In spite of the increasing attention attributed to the rise in prominence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, few studies have looked at the …
Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective
This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe’s most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective. It …
The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management
Known as either ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ ‘managerialism’, ‘new managerialism’ or ‘new public management’, this new narrative has, irrespective of moniker, permeated the institutions of …
Mapping the Higher Education Landscape
An important contribution to the international discussion on higher education globalization and worldwide rankings of higher education institutions, this volume criticizes the …
The Forefront of International Higher Education
This book honors the academic trajectory and global impact of Philip G. Altbach, one of the most important education comparativists worldwide for over forty years. From his early …
Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis …
Reforming Higher Education
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 …
Multidimensional Ranking
During the last decades ranking has become one of the most controversial issues in higher education and research. It is widely recognized now that, although some of the current …