Title: Higher education policy and institutional change : intentions and outcomes in turbulent environments /
Authors: Trowler, Paul.; Society for Research into Higher Education.
Publisher: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Universities and colleges Administration Congresses.; Education, Higher Congresses; Educational planning Congresses.
Abstract: This text focuses on three levels of analysis - national policy-making, institutional strategy, & the ground level of departments & individual academics. Examples are analysed due to recent theoretical understandings of the policy process.
Contents: 1. Introduction: Higher Education Policy, Institutional Change / Paul R. Trowler -- 2. Explaining Change in Higher Education Policy / Ivar Bleiklie -- 3. The Role of Different Groups in Policy-Making and Implementation: Institutional Politics and Policy-Making / Maurice Kogan -- 4. Access and Recruitment: Institutional Policy in Widening Participation / Brenda Morgan-Klein and Mark Murphy -- 5. Resources in the Management of Change in Higher Education / Rachel Johnson -- 6. The Unintended Consequences of Deregulation: Australian Higher Education in the Marketplace / Di Adams -- 7. A Comedy of Manners: Quality and Power in Higher Education / Louise Morley -- 8. Exploring the Implementation Gap: Theory and Practices in Change Interventions / Paul R. Trowler and Peter T. Knight -- The Society for Research into Higher Education.