Full Description
The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education reveals valuable new perspectives for understanding higher education. Higher education plays an ever-greater role in contemporary life, creating innovation, skills, prosperity, and wellbeing, and is therefore of increasing importance to understand.
Crafted as a sophisticated entry point, this Handbook takes a wide look at the topic, the state of contemporary research, and future directions. An array of expert international contributors examine important and contentious issues such as who should pay, how to keep higher education accountable, the assurance of quality, boosting productivity and affordability, and the role of states and markets. Experts explain how universities relate to states and societies, the political economy of higher education, planning and resource allocation, regulation and quality, and the politics of stakeholder interests.
Unpacking key issues for both researchers new to the sector and experts alike, this topical Handbook will prove essential and thought-provoking reading for government policymakers, social science researchers, higher education executives, as well as instructors of graduate courses.
Contributors include: B. Cantwell, H. Coates, A. Boggs, J. Brennan, A. Calderon, D.G. Carew, B. Chapman, G. Croucher, G. Davis, R. Deem, T. Depaola, D. Dohmen, R. Fearnside, C.A. Goldman, A. Grimm, E. Halford, T. Hicks, E. Jerez, B. Jongbloed, A. Kezar, R. King, M. Klemencic, D. Kristoffersen, M. Krongkaew, S. Lee, B. Lepori, M. Lodge, R. Middlehurst, K. Moore, Å. Olsson, B.Y. Park, A. Pettigrew, S. Popenici, B. Pusser, S. Robertson, P. Rohan, C. Sá, E. Sabzalieva, D. Van Damme, M. Van Der Wende, M. Vukasovic, R. Wagenaar, S.U. Weerakkody, M. Wells, R. Yang, C. Ziguras
Contents
Contents:
Introduction: The politics of higher education
Brendan Cantwell, Hamish Coates and Roger King
PART 1 THE UNIVERSITY, STATE AND SOCIETY
1. The State and the Civil Society in the Scholarship of Higher Education
Brian Pusser
2. Trust, universities and the state
Gwilym Croucher and Glyn Davis
3. The politics of university governance and United Kingdom devolution
Andrew M. Boggs and Robin Middlehurst
4. Transformations of higher education institutions in the Chinese tradition
Rui Yang
5. The Social Dimension of Higher Education: reproductive and transformative
John Brennan
PART II POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
6. Global higher education governance
Dirk Van Damme and Marijk Van der Wende
7. Global higher education and variegated regionalisms
Susan L. Robertson
8. The geopolitics of academic science
Brendan Cantwell and Adam Grimm
9. Scientific nationalism in a globalizing world
Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva
10. Soft power projection: The political return on investment in international higher education
Christopher Ziguras
11. The geopolitics of higher education: pursuing success in an uncertain global environment
Angel Calderon
PART III PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION
12. National resource allocation decisions in higher education: Objectives and dilemmas
Benedetto Lepori and Ben Jongbloed
13. Higher education funding in the context of competing demands for government expenditure
Dieter Dohmen
14. The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme
Bruce Chapman and Timothy Hicks
15. The political economy of Thailand's income contingent and allowance loan (TICAL) scheme: A personal account
Medhi Krongkaew
16. Using workforce data to plan higher education degree programs
Charles A. Goldman and Diana G. Carew
17. The politics of funding for research and development
Alan Pettigrew and Åsa Olsson
PART IV REGULATION AND QUALITY
18. Risk-based regulation in higher education: Why, how, when, and what else?
Roger King
19. Regulating diversity: The challenges of regulation in pluralistic higher education systems, A UK Case Study
Elizabeth Halford
20. Tertiary regulation in Asia: Emerging models
Dorte Kristoffersen, Susanna Lee and Rob Fearnside
21. Regulating higher education: National audit explosions in international markets
Martin Lodge
22. Transparency is the lynchpin for higher education success
Hamish Coates, S. Umesha Weerakkody, Emeline Jerez, Michael Wells and Stefan Popenici
PART V THE POLITICS OF STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS
23. Stakeholder organizations and multi-level governance of higher education
Martina Vukasovic
24. The gender politics of higher education
Rosemary Deem
25. Neoliberalism and faculty roles: The politics of academic work
Adrianna Kezar and Tom DePaola
26. Student politics: Between representation and activism
Manja Klemenčič and Bo Yun Park
27. University-industry collaboration
Peter Rohan and Kenneth Moore
28. Skills and learning gain(s) in twenty-first-century higher education: Politics or policy?
Robert Wagenaar
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