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Conflicting Interests in Higher Education.
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Rhoades, Gary – American Journal of Education, 1983
Considers five major interests at stake in higher education: social justice, competence, academic freedom, autonomy/accountability, and decentralization/centralization. Suggests that the implementation of conflicting interests is less a matter of the relation between the state and higher education than of relations between the academic profession…
Descriptors: Accountability, Centralization, College Faculty, Conflict
U 68--A Study of the Origins of the Reform of Higher Education. R&D for Higher Education. Information on Research and Development for Higher Education. 1982:4.
Ruin, Olof; Lindensjo, Bo – 1982
A study of the evolution of the reform of Swedish higher education is summarized. The study focuses on the goals, dimensions, and organization of the change, discussed in the context of state intervention, public policy, planning, and authority in European higher education. Three theories of the development of higher education (interventionist,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Federal Government
IFLA General Conference, 1990. Division of General Research Libraries: Open Forum; Section of National Libraries; Section of University Libraries and Other General Research Libraries; Section of Parliamentary Libraries. Booklet 1.
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
The 16 reports in this collection were presented at an open forum on research libraries and meetings of three more specialized sections: (1) "Nature and Purpose of the Division of General Research Libraries" (Ernst Kohl); (2) "Objectives and Goals of the Section of Parliamentary Libraries" (Ernst Kohl); (3) "The IFLA…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decentralization, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Government
The UHA Programme for the Follow-Up of the Reform of Higher Education - Current Status. Information on Research and Development for Higher Education.
National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit. – 1978
The national Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges has initiated a program for the followup and evaluation of the higher education reform in Sweden. The program currently consists of six projects, with an additional three in the planning stage. They cover all of the problem areas given high priority by the national government: the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, College Curriculum, Educational Change
The State as a Support System: What Should Women in Academe Expect? A Global Perspective.
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NtiAsare, Nancy Sharp – 1995
A comparative analysis of family policy in various nations looks at state financial support for families and in particular how professional women in academia fare internationally with respect to state support for their families. The analysis includes a review of the general development of family support through the industrial revolution and the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Family History
Academic Power. Patterns of Authority in Seven National Systems of Higher Education.
Van de Graaff, John H.; And Others – 1978
The result of an interdisciplinary seminar in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, this book reviews patterns of academic power in several nations. The authors are John H. Van de Graaff, Burton R. Clark, Dorotea Furth, Dietrich Goldschmidt, and Donald F. Wheeler. Separate chapters are devoted to the Federal Republic of…
Descriptors: Books, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Administration