International Studies in Higher Education

Book Series

New & Published Titles:

Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education

The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce

Edited by Celia Whitchurch, George Gordon

The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce,…

November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99090-5 (Routledge)

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International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

Edited by Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic…

August 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99043-1 (Routledge)

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International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education

Alternative Frameworks for Coordination

Edited by Jeroen Huisman

Essential reading for policy makers, institutional leaders, managers, advisors, and scholars in the field of higher education, International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education…

February 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98933-6 (Routledge)

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Structuring Mass Higher Education

The Role of Elite Institutions

Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper

Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time…

2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42604-6 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

Series Editors: David Palfreyman, Bursar and Fellow of New College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, (OxCHEPS), Scott Thomas, Professor, School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate UniversityTed TapperEmeritus Professor of Politics, University of Sussex and Visiting Professor, OxCHEPS.

The central purpose of this series of a projected dozen volumes is to see how different national and regional systems of higher education are responding to widely shared pressures for change. The most significant of these are: rapid expansion; reducing public funding; the increasing influence of market and global forces; and the widespread political desire to integrate higher education more closely into the wider needs of society and, more especially, the demands of the economic structure. The series will commence with an international overview of structural change in systems of higher education. It will then proceed to examine on a global front the change process in terms of topics that are both traditional (for example, institutional management and system governance) and emerging (for example, the growing influence of international organizations and the blending of academic and professional roles). At its conclusion the series will have presented, through an international perspective, both a composite overview of contemporary systems of higher education, along with the competing interpretations of the process of change.

Volume editors will be selected internationally with the only requirement being expertise in the field of investigation and a thorough command of the English language. Individual chapters will be written by leading authorities drawn from the national/regional systems under observation.

Topics to be covered:

The idea of the university in the age of mass higher education
Structural change as a response to mass higher education
The growing influence of international organizations
System governance: the changing role of the state
Institutional governance: managing internal and external pressures
Funding/finance: the changing balance of public and private inputs
Higher education and civil society
The accountable university: regulation, markets and professional control
The student experience: continuity, change and differentiation
Defining academic and professional roles
Controlling student access channels
Understanding the relationship between higher education andeconomic performance
The research mission of higher education
The delivery of teaching in the context of mass higher education

If you want to be considered as an editor please send an exploratory email to Ted Tapper. We welcome suggestions for additional texts and any comments about the series that you may wish to make.

Forthcoming Titles:

Accountability in Higher Education: A Global Perspective on Quality, Trust and Power
Edited by Bjorn Stensaker, Lee Harvey
To be published July 1st 2010

Cross-border Collaborations in Higher Education: Partnerships beyond the classroom
Edited by Robin Sakamoto, David Chapman
To be published November 1st 2010

International Research Collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble
Edited by Melissa S. Anderson, Nicholas H. Steneck
To be published November 1st 2010