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Strategic European Partnerships for UK Universities Post-Brexit: Navigating a Globally Contested Field of World-Class Universities
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Ludovic Highman; Simon Marginson; Vassiliki Papatsiba – Tertiary Education and Management, 2023
This paper assesses how UK universities seek to maintain their global dominant position post-Brexit through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key European institutions as part of their internationalisation strategies. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted from November 2017 to July 2018 in 12 UK universities vertically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Global Approach
Higher Education Mergers in Europe: A Comparative Study of the Post-Merger Phase
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Ripoll-Soler, Carlos; de-Miguel-Molina, María – Tertiary Education and Management, 2019
The aim of this study is to compare the results of successful mergers in terms of ranking performance of the so called 'world-class' universities in a European Union context, with a view to identifying the challenges these universities face in their post-merger situation and strategies. After a content analysis, four themes emerged: crucial…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Reputation, Comparative Education, Universities
Impact of Government Policies and International Students on UK University Economic Stability
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Scott, Timothy – International Education Studies, 2021
Numerous UK universities are experiencing financial instability; with an increasingly competitive and maturing market, reliance has grown on international students to offset institutional shortfalls. Dependency on international student tuition revenue has over-exposed the market to dramatic shifts in political policies, both domestic and…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Financial Support, Universities, Competition
Tensions between Research Performativity and Higher Education as a Nationalist Public Good: The Case of Denmark, Welfare Chauvinism, and Status Competition
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Simon Warren – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This paper focuses on the tension between two political rationalities coordinating Danish higher education (HE) -- a nativist politics of belonging and that of status competition and its technologies of university rankings, citation indexes, and performance management, explored historically drawing on Gramscian conjunctural analysis. The paper…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Citation Analysis, Faculty Publishing
Rescaling Expertise in EU Policy-Making: European Think Tanks and Their Reliance on Symbolic, Political and Network Capital
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Bajenova, Tatyana – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
This article explores the strategies think tanks (TTs) from Brussels, London, Paris and Ljubljana use to exert influence on European Union (EU) policy-making. The paper argues that European TTs mobilise symbolic, political and network forms of capital built at the European level to enhance their legitimacy, credibility and visibility in the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Policy Formation, Organizations (Groups), Foreign Countries
Exploring the Governance of Polish Public Higher Education: Balancing Restored Historical Legacies with Europeanization and Market Pressures
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Dobbins, Michael – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This article places developments in Polish public higher education (HE) in the broader context of the literature on HE governance and, in particular, marketization. The Polish case stands out due to the parallel existence of prestigious large universities with long histories of scientific advancement and the largest number of private HE…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Commercialization