1st Edition
Structuring Mass Higher Education The Role of Elite Institutions
Foreword Sheldon Rothblatt
Preface
1. Structuring Mass Higher Education: Interpreting the Process of Change Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
Part I: Structural Change in Systems of Higher Education
2. U.S. Higher Education: Contemporary Challenges, Policy Options James Fairweather
3. Structural Changes in Higher Education: The Case of the United Kingdom Peter Scott
4. Nordic Higher Education in Transition Agnete Vabø and Per Olaf Aamodt
5. Latin American Higher Education: Hope in the Struggle? Alma Maldonado-Maldonado
6. Higher Education in India: The Challenge of Change N. Jayaram
7. The German ‘Excellence Initiative’ and its Role in Restructuring the National Higher Education Landscape Barbara M. Kehm and Peer Pasternack
8. South Africa’s Elite Universities in the Oost-Apartheid Era, 1994-2007 Andre Kraak
9. The Legacy of Planning: Higher Education Development in China Kai-Ming Cheng, Yan Wang and Su-Yan Pan
10. Excellence in Dutch Higher Education: Handle with Care Frans Kaiser and Hans Vossensteyn
11. Polish Higher Education in Transition: Between Policy Making and Autonomy Ireneusz Bialecki and Malgorzata Dabrowa-Szefler
Part II: Elite Institutions in the Age of Mass Higher Education
12. What is an ‘Elite’ or ‘Leading Global’ University? David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper
13. Elite Higher Education in France: Tradition and Transition Cécile Deer
14. The Elite Public Universities in Australia Simon Marginson
15. (Post-) Mass Higher Education and Japanese Elite Universities Fumi Kitagawa
16. The Ivy League Roger L. Geiger
17. Oxbridge: Sustaining the International Reputation Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
18. Conclusion: Converging Systems of Higher Education? Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
Index
Biography
David Palfreyman is Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford.
Ted Tapper is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford, and the Center for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPAS).
"If I had thought a bit more deeply that day in 1983 when the U.S. News & World Report first announced its collegiate rankings, I might have predicted a time when this volume, edited by David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper, would not only have been published but would also be a welcomed and significant addition to our continued attempts to understand the rapid changes occuring in tertiary systems around the world. . . In all, this volume provides glimpses into the contemporary issues with which many countries are wrestling."—Review of Higher Education
