Governance Reforms in European University Systems The Case of Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krüger, Karsten (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Parellada, Martí (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Samoilovich, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sursock, Andrée (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Educational Governance Research, 8
• Subjects: Higher education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, The Netherlands, and Portugal. It focuses in particular on the governance of the systems and institutions in these countries. The book shows that each of the national reform proces...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. National reform processes: examples of six European countries
• 2.1 Recent reforms of Austrian universities
• 2.2. Opportunities for change - university reforms in Denmark
• 2.3 Structural reforms in the Finnish higher education system
• 2.4 Clustering higher education and research entities in France    
• 2.5 Early breakthrough reform in the Netherlands
• 2.6 Structural reforms in the Portuguese university systems
• 3. Governance reforms from a European Perspective
• 3.1 Implementation processes
• 3.2  Changes in university governance
• 3.3 Changes in the environment
• 3.4 Evaluating the reforms
• 4. Concluding remarks.