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Zgaga, Pavel, Ed.; Teichler, Ulrich, Ed.; Schuetze, Hans G., Ed.; Wolter, Andrä, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2019
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume takes a close look at these changes, the drivers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Instruction
Goodman, Roger, Ed.; Kariya, Takehiko, Ed.; Taylor, John, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2013
The relationship between the state and higher education institutions has always been a complex one. The "state" itself in this context is a heterogeneous mix of elite people--bureaucrats, politicians, committees of co-opted academics and business leader--and it increasingly faces pressures from diverse stakeholders, including students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Public Sector, Higher Education
Pritchard, Rosalind M. O. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2011
The paradigmatic values underlying British and German higher education emphasise personal growth, the wholeness of the individual, intellectual freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which cumulatively can be viewed as a form of academic essentialism. However, these concepts were generated within a particular cultural and historical context which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes, Educational Principles