Higher education at the crossroads : tradition or transformation? / Ingemar Fägerlind, Içara Holmesland, Görel Strömqvist, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fägerlind, Ingemar, 1935-

Holmesland, Içara

Strömqvist, Görel

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in comparative and international education ; no. 48.

Studies in comparative and international education / Institute of International Education, University of Stockholm, 0348-9523 ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Educational change.

Education and state.

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stockholm : Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, [1999]

Contents:

Part I. Quality in higher education. The quality dimension of higher education : a Swedish perspective / Torsten Husén

The quality of knowledge production in higher education : the Norwegian scene / Anne Welle-Strand

Construction of educational evaluation in higher education : the case of Denmark / Hanne Foss Hansen

Academic excellence in a geo-politically changed South Africa / Birgit Brock-Utne

Academic freedom in World War I : the case of Maria Heuer and the College of Hawaii / Edward R. Beauchamp

Part II. Recent trends in higher education. Universities in a global innovation economy / Martin Carnoy

The logic of mass higher education / Philip G. Altbach

The predictability of educational expansion : examples from secondary and higher education / Jón Torfi Jónasson

How fares the University? / Osmo Kivinen

Is higher education turning virtual? / Jan-Ingvar Löfstedt

The rise of the McUniversity / Risto Rinne

Part III. Governance in higher education. The governance of the South African higher education system : balancing state control and state supervision in co-operative governance / Yusuf Sayed

Higher education issues and reforms in Poland / Karen Soresen

Danish universities in shifting political environments / Palle Rasmussen

The deanship and collegiality in the modern university / Lawrence J. Saha

Part IV. The service university. The service orientation in academia, or who serves in comparative perspective? / William K. Cummings

Success in academic institutions : the case of the business school / Peter Lorange

Fostering entrepreneurship and enterprise / John L. Thompson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9172650214

OCLC:

48458133