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Wright, Susan; Greenwood, Davydd; Boden, Rebecca – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2011
The authors have been investigating universities in their own countries for many years and are now turning their attention to exploring alternatives to current reforms. As part of these investigations, they spent two days of interviews and meetings at Mondragon, a town in Gipuzkoa in the Spanish Basque Country. Mondragon is at the centre of one of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Cooperatives
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Wright, Susan; Orberg, Jakob Williams – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
In 2003 the Danish government reformed universities to "set them free" from the state. Yet ministers are actively trying to shape universities and even set research agendas. How does the government's notion of "freedom" reconcile independence with control? We identify three discourses of freedom: freedom to use academic…
Descriptors: Freedom, Educational Finance, Public Policy, Governance