Full Description
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned.
Higher education in Europe faces a series of major challenges. The economic crisis has accelerated expectations of an increased role in addressing economic and societal challenges while at the same time putting pressure on available finances. Broader trends such as shifting student demographics and expectations, globalisation and mobility and new ways of working with business have contributed to these increased pressures. In the light of these trends there have been moves, both from national or regional agencies and from individual institutions to respond by combining resources, either through collaborative arrangements or more fundamentallythrough mergers between two or more universities.
After an introductory chapter by the editors which establishes the context for mergers and alliances, the book falls into two main parts. Part 1 takes a national or regional perspective to give some sense of the historical context, the wider drivers and the importance of these developments in these cases. Included are both systemic accounts (for countries as France, Sweden, Romania, Russia, Wales and England), and specific cross-cutting in
itiatives including a major facility at Magurele in Romania and a Spanish programme for promoting international campuses of excellence. Part 2 is built from specific cases of universities, either in mergers or alliances, with examples from different countries (such as France, UK, Romania, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland). A concluding chapter by the editors assesses these experiences and indicates the implications and future needs for understanding in this domain.
Contents
Mergers and Alliances in Context. Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper.- Part I Mergers and Alliances from the Perspective of National. Higher Education Systems.- Mergers and Alliances in France: Incentives, Success Factors and Obstacles. Andrée Sursock.- Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles. Liviu Andreescu, Radu Georghiu, Alina Irimia, Adrian Curaj.- Collaboration Between Universities in Sweden. Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey.- Reorganising the Welsh University System. Philip Gummett.- Institutional Mergers in Ireland. Siobhán Harkin, Ellen Hazelkorn.- Institutional Mergers in Chinese Higher Education. Rui Yang.- Institutional Culture of Mergers and Alliances in South Africa. Martin Hall.- Institutional Combinations and the Creation of a New Higher Education Institutional Landscape in post-1994 South Africa. Saleem Badat.- Part II Mergers and Alliances at the Institutional. Level - Experiences and Lessons.- Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester - an update. Luke Georghiou.- The Experience with Creating University of Lorraine by Merging four Former Universities. Jean-Pierre Finance, Hervé Coilland, Pierre Mutzenhardt.- Strategic Aggregation of Universities in Spain: The Spanish Program International Campus of Excellence and the Experience of the Technical University of Madrid. Luis Delgado,
Gonzalo León.- The Process of Merging Romanian Universities: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University of Baia Mare. Radu Munteanu, Dan Călin Peter.- The Experience of University of Western Sydney, Australia. Rhonda Hawkins.- About the Editors.- About the Authors.
