""There is no truer text to the topic than "Managing Successful Universities" ... The second edition is a full revision in which globalisation, managing financial disjuncture and the enhancement of research performance all loom larger than before. Like its predecessor this book will be used throughout the English speaking world and beyond."
Professor Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne

" This] is the manual par excellence for modern university leadership and management. In my role as a business school dean, it is by far the most useful...

""Every Mike Shattock book on higher education is worth keeping and re-reading. Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945-2011 is a great story, very readable and full of wry humour. It is also a profoundly informative work that explains the policy and politics of higher education better than anything else that is available."
Professor Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

"As expected, Michael Shattock's mastery of the history of higher education policy-making in the UK is evident in every page - the temptation is to say...

Governance is becoming increasingly important in universities just as it is in the wider world of commerce and banking. Historically, universities were run by their academic communities but as mass higher education has taken root, as university research has become a critical element in national economies and as the demand for more accountability both financial and in academic performance has grown, pressure has mounted for a 'modernisation' of governance structures. One aspect of 'modernisation', particularly important in many European systems, and in Japan, has been the decision by...