Bücher der Reihe Studies in Higher Education

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.