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This book is about higher education reforms in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of somebody who has spent the last decade analyzing these reforms as well as negotiating and supervising reform projects in countries from Serbia and Montenegro to Mongolia.

In a modern Europe, even with 900 years of history and learning behind it, the European Research University faces major challenges on multiple fronts. This book maps out both the present and the long-term issues that the European Research University must now tackle.

An exploration of international privatization of higher education in post-communist Europe from two top scholars in the field. Levy and Slantcheva trace the ramifications of globalization in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the former Soviet republics.

A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.

Addresses the question of whether specific forms of government regulation are more effective than others in helping to solve the higher education crisis, by analysing the relationships between government and higher education in 12 states in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

There is an urgency to rediscover local knowledge and wisdom as universities and their communities respond to globalisation. This work presents an insightful account of the role of indigenous knowledge in higher education institutions across a number of societies.

In times of international political and economic change the great universities of Europe and North America are being transformed. The papers of this volume are the outcome of the process of discussions, which took place during the 1995 international symposium on the future role of the university held in Vienna, Austria.

Talks about higher education world-wide and in all its manifestations. This work deals with three broad sub-themes: university and development: anticipating change; universities and the international knowledge enterprise; and, academic freedom and university autonomy: pre-requisites for the university meeting its responsibilities.

Examines how the higher education environment is being shaped by new information technologies, with a particular focus on technologies based in the Internet. This work illustrates a vision of how virtual universities and their elements are emerging, and of how they can be shaped to the needs of knowledge-based societies.

This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.

Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used to frame the case-study accounts.

Contributes to the European debate on the relationship between government and universities. In developing general policy arguments, introduced in the opening chapters and summed up in the concluding discussion, this book examines empirically the "cultures" of four innovative and three stagnant Swedish departments in the social sciences.

This collection offers an authoritative, up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today across both the UK and internationally. The book charts the impact of global economic trends and recent policy developments for students, academics, providers and changing course provision.

This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today.