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

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 produc...

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Superior document:Higher Education Research in the 21st Century, The CHER Series ; 2
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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.
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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.