Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole experience of higher education for all the interested parties from, presidents, rectors and vice-chancellors to first-term undergraduates.
Structuring Mass Higher Education examines the impact of this change upon the existing national structures of higher education. It also defines and highlights what makes an `elite’ university – something which institutions must strive for in order to gain their position as global players. With case studies and contributions from a wide range of international authors, the book explores questions such as:
- Do higher education institutions retain a national significance, even though the vestiges of an international reputation have long faded?
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- Has expansion undermined the quality of higher education because governments sought to expand "on the cheap"?
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- Is the elite institutional response to mass higher education perceived as a threat to be responded to with purposeful action that sustains their elite status?
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- Does the emergence of the international league tables pose a challenge to those responsible for governing elite institutions?
These are critical issues with which both policy-makers and institutional leaders will have to grapple over the next ten years, making Structuring Mass Higher Education a timely, relevant, and much needed text. It will appeal to policy makers and practitioners within higher education as well as student and scholars worldwide.
Table of Contents:
Foreword Sheldon Rothblatt
Preface
1. Structuring Mass Higher Education: Interpreting the Process of Change Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
Part I: Structural Change in Systems of Higher Education
2. U.S. Higher Education: Contemporary Challenges, Policy Options James Fairweather
3. Structural Changes in Higher Education: The Case of the United Kingdom Peter Scott
4. Nordic Higher Education in Transition Agnete Vabø and Per Olaf Aamodt
5. Latin American Higher Education: Hope in the Struggle? Alma Maldonado-Maldonado
6. Higher Education in India: The Challenge of Change N. Jayaram
7. The German `Excellence Initiative’ and its Role in Restructuring the National Higher Education Landscape Barbara M. Kehm and Peer Pasternack
8. South Africa’s Elite Universities in the Oost-Apartheid Era, 1994-2007 Andre Kraak
9. The Legacy of Planning: Higher Education Development in China Kai-Ming Cheng, Yan Wang and Su-Yan Pan
10. Excellence in Dutch Higher Education: Handle with Care Frans Kaiser and Hans Vossensteyn
11. Polish Higher Education in Transition: Between Policy Making and Autonomy Ireneusz Bialecki and Malgorzata Dabrowa-Szefler
Part II: Elite Institutions in the Age of Mass Higher Education
12. What is an `Elite’ or `Leading Global’ University? David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper
13. Elite Higher Education in France: Tradition and Transition Cécile Deer
14. The Elite Public Universities in Australia Simon Marginson
15. (Post-) Mass Higher Education and Japanese Elite Universities Fumi Kitagawa
16. The Ivy League Roger L. Geiger
17. Oxbridge: Sustaining the International Reputation Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
18. Conclusion: Converging Systems of Higher Education? Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman
Index
About the Author :
David Palfreyman is Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford.
Ted Tapper is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford, and the Center for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPAS).
Review :
"This text provides an exceptionally detailed historical account of the development of mass education in a variety of national settings." - Ryan Guffey, Journal of International and Global Studies
