Transforming Higher Education: A Comparative Study (2nd by Professor Ivar Bleiklie, Maurice Kogan (auth.), Maurice

By Professor Ivar Bleiklie, Maurice Kogan (auth.), Maurice Kogan, Mary Henkel, Professor Marianne Bauer, Professor Ivar Bleiklie (eds.)

This booklet incorporates ahead the findings of a world examine undertaking, first released in 2000, at the radical greater schooling reforms brought because the Nineteen Seventies. it really is dependent upon files, information and large interviews with politicians, institutional leaders and lecturers from a variety of associations and disciplines in 3 international locations. it's certainly one of just a handful of latest comparative stories that mix robust empirical study with theoretical research constructed inside of a thematic instead of a rustic established framework.

Drawing jointly the consequences of reports of Sweden, Norway and England in a collection of comparative analyses, the authors determine the reforms of the better schooling platforms on 3 precise degrees, the country, the establishment and the person. They research switch in executive coverage, within the management and administration of upper schooling associations and the impression on educational identities and the educational profession.

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Public funding has increased. At the same time, however, there has been a further shift towards 2. Higher Education Policies: Historical Overview 31 market mechanisms. Under new legislation in 2004, universities have been allowed to charge ‘top-up’ fees (within a fixed limit) for undergraduate degrees. Otherwise, earlier policies for strengthening the contribution of higher education and research to the economy; and concentrating public research funding have been reinforced. The Bologna process has, as yet, had limited impact.

Printed in the Netherlands. 2 This does not mean that the content of policies per se can be deduced from particular regime characteristics, but it does mean that the processes that bring about change in policy can. 3 The next section outlines and analyses the policy design of the recent reforms by focusing on the choice of policy instruments. Then in Section 3 we turn to the regime characteristics of higher education policy and develop the concepts that shall be used for the analysis of regime changes.

Within the two universities were selected the faculties of the humanities and social sciences that together employ 70% of all Norwegian academics within these types of university faculties. Thus the selection of disciplines at the institutional level was somewhat different from the two other country studies. 46 semi-structured interviews were made with actors or respondents operating at different levels. At the disciplinary level 32 academics at the two faculties of the Humanities and Social in Bergen and Oslo were interviewed.

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