Böcker i Studies in Higher Education-serien

While a number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. This book provides the descriptive and conceptual understanding of the process by which states determine merit aid scholarship criteria.

Explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. This work demonstrates how international aid facilitated and encouraged changing patterns of state-university relations from state control towards greater institutional autonomy.

Explores how domestic actors are key to understanding the constitution of the global liberalization process entailed by the General Agreement on Trade in Services as well as the opposition to this process. This book is suitable for those with an interest in the future of higher education.

The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy and in many countries reforms have increasingly addressed this area. This title examines this crucial issue through the use of empirical research - including over 200 interviews - on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns.

Explores the experiences of Foreign Language Faculty members -often marginalised within the teaching profession- looking at how this marginalisation has arisen, the forms it takes, and how various groups have responded to this situation.