Governing Universities Globally : Organizations, Regulation and Rankings
R. King
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cheltenham : : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (242 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Globalization and regulatory governance; 1. Universities in the globalizing world; 2. World models of university governance; 3. Global regulatory governance; 4. Transnational governance in higher education systems: Europe and the OECD; PART II Standards, models and rankings; 5. University league tables; 6. The impact of rankings on institutional behaviour and policies; 7. Global rankings and regulating the world-class university; 8. Conclusion: global regulatory futures; Bibliography; Index. - Examines how universities, as increasingly autonomous organizations, are subject to forms of global governance that rely on private and peer-processes rather than legal command and compliance. This book explores the growing influence of global regulatory governance - governmental and private - on universities and national higher education systems.
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| ISBN | 9781847207395
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