Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education - Comparative Perspectives

List of contents

Part I. Theorizing Governance in Higher Education: 1. Theorizing the governance of higher education: beyond the 'Republic of Scholars' Ontology Giliberto Capano and Darryl S. L. Jarvis; Part II. Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education: 2. The regulatory state and the labour process Kanishka Jayasuriya, Greg Mccarthy and Xianlin Song; 3. Systemic governance: convergence or hybridization? Giliberto Capano; 4. Institutional governance: factors, actors, and consequences of attempting to converge on the Anglo-American model Marino Regini; 5. Capture and drift in emerging international governance arrangements: the role of meta-organizations in higher education quality assurance Ase Gornitzka, Peter Maassen and Bjørn Stensaker; 6. Understanding convergence and divergence in the internationalization of higher education from a world society perspective Renze Kolster and Don F. Westerheijden; 7. Convergence through research performance measurement? Comparing talk and practices in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom Jenny M. Lewis; 8. Accountability and governance in European higher education Michael Dobbins and Jens Jungblut; 9. Towards new models of decision making within university governance in anglophone nations Julie Rowlands; 10. Governance in public and private higher education in Europe: patterns, divergences, and convergences Pedro N. Teixeira and Robin Middlehurst; Part III. Geographies of Governance: 11. Higher education governance in North America Giliberto Capano and Jun Jie Woo; 12. Governance trends in European higher education Harry F. De Boer and Jeroen Huisman; 13. Governance and corruption in east and southeast Asian higher education: close cousins, close encounters Anthony Welch; 14. Fixing the system? Trends in African higher education governance Rose Amazan and Kassahun Kebede Dawo; 15. Neoliberals versus post-neoliberals in the formation of governance regimes in Latin America's higher education Miguel Alejandro Gonzalez-Ledesma and German Alvarez-Mendiola; Index.

Summary

This volume offers a comprehensive set of approaches to understanding the changing dimensions of higher education governance, the structural, institutional, and regional-national drivers precipitating convergence and divergence in governance approaches, and maps the directions of change, their consequences and outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Giliberto (Universita Degli Studi Capano, Giliberto Jarvis Capano, Capano Darryl S. L. Jarvis Giliberto Capano
• Assisted by: Giliberto Capano (Editor), Capano Giliberto (Editor), Darryl S L Jarvis (Editor), Darryl S. L. Jarvis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108483964
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48396-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher