Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses: The Transformation of Higher Education (Higher Education Research in the 21st Century, 9)

In this book we aim to discuss and reflect on how HEIs are coping with the demands placed on them and how the various dimensions of change are intertwined. In particular, we aim to discuss the following questions: How do governance regimes steer higher education institutions? This part of the book focuses its attention on how higher education and research institutions operate under different governance regimes at international, regional and national levels, and how that context shapes governance and management arrangements at institutional level. How are institutions managing their quality and performance? This part deals with the systems institutions are developing to manage their quality and their wider performance to cope with the internal and external forces pressing them to constantly improve their levels of quality and wider performance in teaching, research and third mission. How are higher education professionals responding to the transformations? This part is devoted to investigate the ways academic and non-academic professionals working in higher education and research institutions respond to the transformations occurring in their organisations, and changes in practices and functions performed by those working in higher education. It also explores the implication of higher education transformations on students. In this book we aim to discuss and reflect on how HEIs are coping with the demands placed on them and how the various dimensions of change are intertwined. In particular, we aim to discuss the following questions: How do governance regimes steer higher education institutions? This part of the book focuses its attention on how higher education and research institutions operate under different governance regimes at international, regional and national levels, and how that context shapes governance and management arrangements at institutional level. 0How are institutions managing their quality and performance? This part deals with the systems institutions are developing to manage their quality and their wider performance to cope with the internal and external forces pressing them to constantly improve their levels of quality and wider performance in teaching, research and third mission. How are higher education professionals responding to the transformations? This part is devoted to investigate the ways academic and non-academic professionals working in higher education and research institutions respond to the transformations occurring in their organisations, and changes in practices and functions performed by those working in higher education. It also explores the implication of higher education transformations on students Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-13 That “Most Real Gift from One Generation to the Next”....Pages 15-26 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Building Comparative Advantage in the Knowledge Society....Pages 29-53 The ‘Dark Side of the Moon’....Pages 55-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Making New Missions Possible....Pages 79-97 Study Success in Higher Education....Pages 99-117 Strategic Positioning in Australian Higher Education....Pages 119-141 The Integration of Quality Management in Universities....Pages 143-158 Recent Research Evaluations in the UK and Portugal....Pages 159-186 The Impact of University Academic Culture and Leadership on the Symptoms of “Global Ranking Fever”....Pages 187-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Career Trajectories of Phd Graduates in the Social Sciences and Humanities....Pages 205-236 Harmonising the Interface Between Academic and Administrative Mind-Sets....Pages 237-236 Back Matter....Pages 267-272