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Direct linkShattock, Michael – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
This article argues that in moving from being self governed to being state governed the policy drivers for higher education are no longer those of the system itself but are derived from a set of policies designed for the reform and modernisation of the public sector of the economy. The formation of higher education policy therefore needs to be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Sector, Public Policy, Private Sector
Gibbs, Graham; Knapper, Christopher; Piccinin, Sergio – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
This paper reports aspects of an international study of leadership of teaching in 19 departments with outstanding teaching records in 11 research-intensive universities. Leadership was found to take different forms in different discipline areas, in different organisational cultures, and in response to major problems affecting the department. While…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Instructional Leadership, Higher Education, College Environment
Tight, Malcolm – Higher Education Quarterly, 2007
With nearly two million students and over 100 higher education institutions (HEIs) in a relatively small country, it might be thought that locational issues were not of much significance in English higher education. This paper argues to the contrary, by exploring the distribution of students (full-time and part-time, undergraduate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Counties, Higher Education
Temple, Paul – Higher Education Quarterly, 2006
In many countries today, public higher education operates within some form of market framework, typically a government-regulated quasi-market. However, having created a market environment, how should the government agencies involved act when they wish to use higher education to achieve a particular policy goal? This paper considers the impact on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Higher Education, Case Studies, Public Education
Temple, Paul – Higher Education Quarterly, 2005
Robert Birnbaum argues that higher education tends to adopt management fads -- newly conceived techniques enjoying brief popularity but which fail to live up to their promoters claims at the point when the corporate sector and government are discarding them. Although fads may have failed in these sectors because of various reasons, their failure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Educational Administration, Models
Alderman, Geoffrey; Brown, Roger – Higher Education Quarterly, 2005
This article provides a comparative analysis of the systems used for the "accreditation" of degree-granting institutions in the USA (accreditation) and the UK (audit). The authors begin by outlining the similarities and differences between the two processes. They point out that audit is not the subject of political controversy in the way that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Quality Control, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education
