1st Edition
Governing Higher Education Today International Perspectives
Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Located Voices
Part I:
Different Voices
Chapter 1: The role and perspective of a UK Chair of the Governing Body
Chris Sayers
Chapter 2: The University Secretary: at the heart of governance
Tony Strike
Chapter 3: Higher Education Governance and Policy on trial
Jonathan W. Nicholls
Part II:
Global Perspectives
Chapter 4: Changing Governance Models in North American Higher Education
Robert A. Scott
Chapter 5: Shaping European Universities: A perspective from the Netherlands
Stephan van Galen
Chapter 6: Diverging Governance Models in a devolved system: case studies from Scotland and Wales
Rebecca Davies and Gerald Webber
Chapter 7: Changing University Governance in South Africa
David J. Hornsby and Ruksana Osman
Chapter 8: Changing Governance Models in Australian Universities
Giconda di Lorenzo and Julie Wells
Chapter 9: Can there be a universal framework of Good Governance
Nina Atwal, Mark Butler, Divia Mattoo and Michael Wood
Part III:
The English Experiment
Chapter 10: How current trends in UK Corporate Governance might influence future higher education governance and policy
Lorraine Young
Chapter 11: The legal framework for University governance in England: how to understand, comply and build on it
Smita Jamdar
Chapter 12: The development and purpose of Corporate Governance Codes
John Rushforth
Chapter 13: Regulating Higher Education markets: the English policy experiment as a case study
David Palfreyman
Part IV:
Elements of Governance
Chapter 14: Public Good(s), Public Benefit and the Public Interest: A Critical Examination of Three Public Purposes of English Universities
Adam Dawkins
Chapter 15: Effectiveness and Effectiveness Reviews
Andy Shenstone
Chapter 16: Assurance of academic standards and quality by and beyond the academy
John Rushforth
Chapter 17: A focus on Performance and Risk: the light and shade of trust and accountability
Tony Strike
Index
Biography
Tony Strike is University Secretary at the University of Sheffield, UK and a member of the executive boards of the European Higher Education Society (EAIR) and the UK Higher Education Strategic Planners Association (HESPA).
Jonathan Nicholls is University Secretary at the Open University and was successively the Registrar of the University of Warwick, the University of Birmingham and the Registrary of the University of Cambridge. He was Chair of the UK’s Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA).
John Rushforth is Executive Secretary of the Committee for University Chairs (CUC) and until 2014 was Deputy Vice Chancellor and Clerk to the Board of Governors at the University of the West of England.
