1st Edition

Reform and Change in Higher Education International Perspectives

336 Pages

by Routledge

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The relationship between governments and universities has vacillated between control and autonomy, symbiosis and laissez-faire, mutual respect and suspicion. This volume of original articles views the issues of higher-education reform within a contemporary and international context to see how relationships have changed within the industrialized nations of the free world and the former communist... Read more

List of Tables and Figures, Series Editor's Preface, Introduction, L University-State Relations in Britain: Paradigm of Autonomy, II. Changing Conceptions of State-University Relationships: The Israeli Case (1950-1990), III. Higher Education Policy Reform in Australia: John Smyth, IV. The Reformulation in Korean Private Higher Education: Changing Relationship between the Government and Private Schools, V. State Legislatures and Public Universities: Changing Relationships in the U.S., VI. Higher Education in Turmoil: The Impact of Political Changes in East Germany on the Transformation of Higher Education, VII. Equality of Higher Education in Post-Communist Hungary and Poland: Challenges and Prospects, VIII. Restructuring Higher Education in the Czech and Slovak Republics: An Institutional Perspective, IX. Governmental Reforms in Hungarian Higher Education: Historical Traditions and New Actors, Contributors, Index