Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies. While university systems are deeply embedded in national settings, the ex post rationale of still on-going reforms is surprisingly uniform and de-nationalized . They promote (1) the organizational turn of universities, to varying extent substituting collegial loosely coupled entities by integrated,...
Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureauc...
On the occasion of Mary Henkel's seventieth birthday a group of her colleagues have come together to write this volume of articles as a tribute to her work and a token of gratitude for contributions to higher education research. The authors analyse these developments leading up to and possibly beyond the present in a tribute to Mary Henkel's work using her birthday as an occasion to focus attention on her contributions to higher education research - something she would normally seek to avoid.
This book is also a contribute to understanding how research in higher education has developed...
On the occasion of Mary Henkel's seventieth birthday a group of her colleagues have come together to write this volume of articles as a tribute to ...
