Higher education reform: looking back - looking forward. Higher education research and policy ; HERP vol. 8.

Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume takes a close look at these changes, the drivers of change, their effects and possible future scenarios. In their contributions the authors discuss a variety of basic concepts: learning and teaching in higher education; financing and quality assurance; governance change; massification vs. equity and equality; internationalization and mobility, the implementation of lifelong structures in higher education. - Contents: Ulrich Teichler: The Future of Higher Education: A View Reflecting the State and the Tasks of Higher Education Research -- Peter Scott: Mass to Market Higher Education Systems: New Transitions or False Dawn? -- Pavel Zgaga: How to Gain Global Connectivity While Retaining Respect for Local Variations? A Reflection on Higher Education Reforms in South-east Europe -- Marek Kwiek: Reforming European Universities: The Welfare State as a Missing Context -- Shinichi Yamamoto: Higher Education Reform: Why Did It Start and Has It Ended? An Analysis of the Japanese Case -- W. James Jacob and John N. Hawkins: Trends in Chinese Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges -- Andr�olter: Massification and Diversity: Has the Expansion of Higher Education Led to a Changing Composition of the Student Body? European and German Evidence -- Rolf von L�de: Academic Freedom under Pressure: From Collegial Governance to New Managerialism -- Rosalind M. O. Pritchard: Academic Values and English Higher Education -- William Bruneau: Five Defences of Academic Freedom in North American Higher Education -- Germ��lvarez-Mendiola and Mitzi Danae Morales Montes: Trends in Private Higher Education in Mexico -- Wietse de Vriesand and Germ��lvarez-Mendiola: Can Reform Policies be Reformed? An Analysis of the Evaluation of Academics in Mexico -- Hans G. Schuetze: Private Higher Education in Canada and the United States: Development, Reform, and Likely Futures -- Ulrich Teichler: After Decades of Declamation: Higher Education on the Move towards Lifelong Learning? -- Anna Spexard: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century: Policies and the Current State of Realization in Europe -- Maria Slowey: Intergenerational Equality and Higher Education: Towards an Age-Friendly Higher Education? -- Andra Wolter: Opening up Higher Education for New Target Groups in Germany: A Case Study for the Development of University Lifelong Learning -- Maureen W. McClure: MOOCs: Hype or Hope? Conflicting Narratives in Higher Education Policy. ISBN 9783631662755