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University adaptation in difficult economic times /

Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most countries is not increasing or at least not increasing enough in real terms. This volume explores...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Mattei, Paola, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:International policy exchange series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Public accountability reforms and higher education / Paola Mattei
  • Dynamics of convergence and divergence. exploring accounts of higher education policy change / Peter Maassen and Åse Gornitzka
  • Global pressures and national cultures: a Nordic university template? / Tom Christensen, Åse Gornitzka, Peter Maassen
  • Financially sustainable universities: challenges and strategies in times of austerity / Thomas Estermann and Enora Pruvot
  • Reforming under pressure. higher education reforms in France (2006-2010) / Corine Eyraud
  • The value of temporary study abroad: the ERASMUS experience / Ulrich Teichler
  • Europeanization and higher education: comfortable bedfellows? / Jeroen Huisman
  • University rankings: the manifestation and driver of competition for excellence within the new higher education landscape / Jan Sadlak
  • Privatisation of higher education in central and eastern Europe / Jadwiga Koralewicz
  • Class and ethnic inequality in educational outcomes in an international perspective / Jan O. Jonsson.