Public Vices, Private Virtues?: Assessing the Effects of Marketization in Higher Education / / edited by Pedro N. Teixeira, David D. Dill.

• Superior document: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century, The CHER Series ; 2
• HerausgeberIn: Teixeira, Pedro N.; Dill, David D.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century, The CHER Series ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-à-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide. The various chapters of this volume analyse the impact of markets at the system level, with significant attention being devoted to the changes in modes of regulation, the strengthening of aspects such as privatization and inter-institutional competition in higher education systems, and the closer interaction between higher education and its economic environment. Several of the contributors devote attention as well to the implications of market forces for institutional change, notably regarding issues such as mission, organizational structure and governance and the way marketization is affecting the internal distribution of power and the definition of priorities. Finally, the volume includes several chapters focusing on the different markets of higher education, such as the academic labour market, undergraduate and postgraduate education, and research markets. Altogether these chapters provide important insights concerning the many national and institutional contexts in which the marketization of higher education has been taking place around the world.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Pedro N. Teixeira and David D. Dill -- Markets and the End of the Current Era in U.S. Higher Education / Roger L. Geiger -- Liberalization of the Privateness in Higher Education / Ka Ho Mok -- Organisational Diversity in Chinese Private Higher Education / Yuzhuo Cai and Fengqiao Yan -- What Characterises the Public-Private Distinction in HE in a Nordic Perspective? / Gyđa Jóhannsdóttir and Jón Torfi Jónasson -- The Increasing Role of Market Forces in HE / Sónia Cardoso , Maria J. Rosa , Diana Amado Tavares and Alberto Amaral -- Ranking Lists and European Framework Programmes / Terhi Nokkala , Barbara Heller-Schuh and Manfred Paier -- How Growing Pressure to be Competitive at National and International Level Affects University Governance / Stefano Boffo and Roberto Moscati -- Leadership, Leadership Development and Markets in UK Publicly Funded Higher Education Organisations - Global, National or European? / Rosemary Deem -- Public Management, New Governance Models and Changing Environments in Portuguese Higher Education / António M. Magalhães and Rui Santiago -- Differences in the Academic Performance of Italian Universities / Emanuela Reale and Marco Seeber -- Regional Delocalization of Academic Offer in Québec / Manuel Crespo , Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée and Sylvain Dubé -- Chinese Universities Facing Global Competition / Kathryn Mohrman -- Volatile Markets and Reluctant Entrepreneurs? / Taran Thune and Ellen Brandt -- Finnish Universities / David M. Hoffman , Mika Raunio and Marjaana Korhonen -- Responses to Resource Scarcity in African Higher Education / Gerald Wangenge-Ouma -- ‘Up-Market’ or ‘Down-Market’ / John Brennan and Kavita Patel -- Faltering Effects of Market-Oriented Reforms on Italian Higher Education / Michele Rostan and Massimiliano Vaira.