Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education : International Practice and Emerging Opportunities / edited by Adrian Curaj, Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper, Eva Egron-Polak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curaj, Adrian, Editor.

Contributor:

Curaj, Adrian, Editor.

Georghiou, Luke, Editor.

Cassingena Harper, Jennifer, Editor.

Egron-Polak, Eva, Editor.

Series:

Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Education and state.

International education.

Comparative education.

Higher Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

International and Comparative Education.

Local Subjects:

Higher Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

International and Comparative Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 307 pages) : 28 illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Higher education in Europe and beyond 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 fundamentally through mergers between two or more universities. This volume seeks to draw upon recent and past experiences of mergers and associations short of a merger and to approach the subject both from a systemic level and from the perspective of individual institutions. Inevitably the two levels are interlinked but broadly speakingthis distinction is used to separate Part 1, dealing with perspectives at the level of a nation and national system, although often illustrated by examples which extend the range of cases (for countries such as France, Sweden, Romania, Wales, China, South Africa), and Part 2, which takes us down to individual case-studies analysed in depth (in countries such as France, UK, Romania, Spain, Australia). These experiences of course also show responses to wider forces and initiatives but allow a more detailed insight into the specific rationales and the implementation issues involved in effecting a university merger. Within the sections the general flow is from large to medium to small European countries and then to non-European. The chapters of this volume tell stories and make contributions in their own right. An introductory chapter seeks to guide the reader by pointing out from the start some recurrent themes and tensions. In seeking to identify the phenomenon of universitymergers, their causes and their consequences, a series of dichotomies are discussed: alliance vs merger; external vs internal motivation; education vs research; short-term vs long-term outcomes and assessment; and motivation and implementation.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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ISBN:

9783319131351

3319131354

OCLC:

1231610109