Zgaga, P., Teichler, U., Schuetze, H. G., Wolter, A. (Eds.) (2015). Higher Education Reform: Looking Back – Looking Forward. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 430 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-66275-5. (original) (raw)

WHI07009Internationalising the Content of Higher Education

Internationalisation of higher education is a current theme in research and politics of higher education. The theme in this paper is related to present developments and concerns of the growing border-crossing activities that take place between nations and their systems of Higher Education. Higher education is expected to be grounded in research, research to be an international activity, and the universities to have an international orientation also in their education of students. The dominant discourse on internationalisation of higher education in research and research based discussions have up till now mainly been from political, economic and organisational perspectives. There is also a tendency to place internationalisation within the frame of globalisation and the increasing trade in educational services worldwide. We do not dispute that this research is helpful to clarify some main political and economic conditions for and ways of organising higher education. However, the resea...

Reforming Higher Education in Europe: From State Regulation Towards New Managerialism

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The present study describes the changes in the traditional European model of higher education, its successes as well as failures. The remarkable expansion of higher education in Europe during the postwar period was the result of a shared belief in the virtue of higher education per se. The traditional m odel of higher education assumes a stable relationship of fair exchange between the State and the academics: the State gives power to the academics in the belief that in this way it will receive in return the forms of knowledge, basic research, and advanced education that will be of most value to itself.

Higher Education and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction

In Schwartzman, Simon, ed. 2020. Higher education in Latin America and the challenges of the 21st century: Springer., 2020

This chapter deals, first, with the origin and evolution of universities in Europe and Latin America, seeking to highlight the motivations and values that have presided over their emergence and continue to serve the education of new generations, such as the value of knowledge, freedom of study and research, institutional autonomy and collegiality. This is also the story of the sometimes harmonious, sometimes conflicting, relationship between universities and the powers of Church and state, and then increasingly with the economy. Second, the chapter considers how university institutions establish themselves in both contexts and manage the different demands and expectations of teachers, students and the wider society, seeking to respond to growing pressures for access, relevance in human capital formation and quality research, and rising costs.

50 years of Higher Education: a critical reflection and thoughts on an evolving agenda

Higher Education

This introduction to the 50th anniversary special issue of Higher Education recounts the history of the journal and reflects on the evolution and expansion of the journal and the field. Higher education studies is an object-oriented field that combines academic explanations with practical interventions. The journal takes an agnostic approach to disciplinary frameworks, theories, and methodologies and an eclectic and inclusive approach to topics. It began in 1972 with a preoccupation with the nature and implications of mass higher education systems, including internationally comparative analyses, and with a focus on policy and planning. Most of the earlier themes of research in the field have continued to the present, but as mass higher education systems have spread across the world, so has the journal's author list and editorial group. Higher education studies remain biased to the Anglophone and Euro-American worlds in their topics, theorizations, and author lists. Between 1996 and 2018, the USA and other English-speaking countries accounted for about 70% of authorship in the six journals with the highest impact factor. However, in Higher Education, that proportion was just over 45%, indicating some progress in the journal's efforts to pluralize, partly through the growth of papers from China. The introduction looks forward, anticipating growth in contributions from the global South, and further inquiry into the purposes of higher education and into its relations in social context. Finally, the introduction discusses the 50th anniversary papers that follow, contributed by twelve present and past editors of the journal. Keyword Higher education; Higher education studies; International higher education; Academic publishing; Anglophone bias; Purposes of higher education Higher Education published its first issues in 1972. In 2022, the journal therefore marks its 50th anniversary, which affords an opportunity to reflect upon the past and look to the future. This special issue both celebrates the journal and offers a critical retrospective and forward-looking assessment of the field of higher education studies. Today, the field of higher education is well established globally. But in 1972, it was a nascent multidisciplinary field with a budding interest in a number of countries. The journal (full title: Higher