The Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western Europe [electronic resource] : The Prince and His Pleasure /
Neave, G.author.
This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: A World Set Upside Down; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 Autonomy and the Changing Contract between the State and Higher Education; 3 The Evaluative State: A Formative Concept and an Overview; 4 The Significance of Evaluative Homogeneity; Part II: Re-engineering Two Higher Education Systems; 5 France: The Asterix Syndrome and the Exceptional Case; 6 Strengthening the Evaluative State: Strategy, Values and Rhetoric; 7 Discord Dissected: The 'New University' and some of its Discontents; 8 Spain: Defining Autonomy, Setting Up Evaluation
Part III: Portugal: A Focused Account9 Portugal: Laying out the Higher Education Landscape; 10 The Dynamic in Portugal's Higher Education Policy; 11 Re-focusing Institutional Autonomy: The Portuguese Decree Law of 2007; 12 Reform at the Cutting Edge: The Institutional Level; 13 Portuguese Higher Education Reform: Four Key Dimensions; Part IV: The Promise of the Evaluative State Evaluated; 14 A Flight over the Evolving Evaluative State; 15 Back to the Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.
European Union.
Education and state.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Political science.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education—Curricula.
European Union Politics.
Education Policy.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Political Science.
Curriculum Studies.