Accountability, trust, and power in higher education
Subtitle: global perspectives
By: edited by Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.
Contributors: Stensaker, Bjørn.; Harvey, Lee, 1949-
Series: International studies in higher education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415871952; 9780415871969; 9780203846162
Subjects: Educational accountability -- Cross-cultural studies; Education, Higher -- Evaluation -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview of the book / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey; title: Accountability: understandings and challenges / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey; title: Accountability in Australia: more power to government and market / Jeanette Baird; title: Accountability in Africa: a disciplinary power in African higher education systems / Gerald Wangenge-Ouma & Patrício V. Langa; title: Accountability in China: primitive attempts / Shuiyun Liu; title: Accountability in Eastern Europe: becoming like everywhere else? / Paul Temple; title: Accountability in Western Europe: shifting quality assurance paradigms / André Sursock; title: Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-José Lemaitre; title: Accountability in the United States: sorting through an American muddle / Robert Zemsky; title: Accountability and cross-border higher education: dynamics, trends and challenges / Robin Middlehurst; title: Transnational accountability initiatives: the case of the EUA-audits / Alberto Amaral and Maria José Rosa; title: Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy; title: Conclusions and reflections / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.