The Crisis of the Publics: An International Comparative Discussion on Higher Education Reforms and Possible Implications for US Public Universities (symposium: March 26-27, 2007)

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Useful Links

European University Association (EUA) – A site containing documents concerning the Bologna Process and other issues concerning EU higher education reform

Department for Education and Skills – A link to documents concerning higher education reform in the United Kingdom

OECD Regional Economic Development Reports

World Higher Education Database (WHED) - International Association of Universities - A database describing countries educational systems

References

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Australia

Cohen, David. 2005. “Academic Caliber of Foreign Students at Australian U.'s Debated.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A61.

Cohen, David. 2005. “A Tarnished Reputation: Australia's universities wrestle with criticism that they're cutting corners to attract foreign students.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A39.

Cohen, David. 2005. “Australian University Plans Overhaul.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A35.

Cohen, David. 2004. “Battle Over Control Looms in Australia.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 51: A43.

Cohen, David. 2006. “Carnegie Mellon Plants the U.S. Flag in Australia: The first American campus in the country has raised expectations and concerns among local academics” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A49.

Cohen, David. 2006. “Growth of Foreign-Student Enrollments Slows in Australia.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A53.

Harman, Grant. 1996. “Funding Crisis for Australian Universities.” International Higher Education 5: 13-14.

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “Australian Universities in the Global Context.” Presented at the Financial Review Higher Education Summit, Sydney.

Marginson, Simon. 2005. “Global position and position-taking: the case of Australia.” Presented at the ASHE International Forum Symposium, Philadelphia.

Marginson, Simon. 2003. “Higher Fee Market for Australian Universities?” International Higher Education 33: 19-20.

Marginson, Simon. 2002. “Nation-Building Universities in a Global Environment: The Case of Australia.” Higher Education 43: 409-428.

Mooney, Paul and Neelakantan, Shailaja. 2004. “No Longer Dreaming of America: In India and China, far fewer students consider the U.S. the best place to go.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 51: A41.

Olsen, A. et. al. Winter 2006. “The Comparative Academic Performance of International Students in Australia.” International Higher Education 42: 11-12.

Vidovich, Lesley. 2002. “Quality Assurance in Australian Higher Education: Globalisation and ‘Steering at a Distance’.” Higher Education 43: 391-408.

Europe

Academic Corporation Association. 2006. “Perceptions of European Higher Education in Third Countries – Outcomes of a Study by the Academic Corporation Association.”

Blumenstyk, Goldie. 2005. “Turning Research -- Slowly -- Into Riches -- Technology Transfer Gains a Foothold at European Universities.” Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A44.

Brakel, R. van, J. Huisman, A. Luijten-Lub, M. Maussen and M.C. van der Wende. 2004. “Evaluation of Erasmus institutional and national impact.” Final Report. CHEPS/PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dinca, George. 2002. “Financial Management and Institutional Relationships with Civil Society. Papers on Higher Education.” Bucharest: UNESCO-CEPES.

Huisman, J. A Luijten-Lub & M.C. van der Wende. 2005. “Explaining Domestic Responses to European Policies: The Impact of the Erasmus Programme on National Higher Education Policies.” In International Perspectives on Higher Education Research Vol 3. International Relations. ed. M. Tight . Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Huisman, J. & M.C. van der Wende, eds. 2004. “On Cooperation and Competition." National and European Policies for Internationalisation of Higher Education. ACA Papers on International Cooperation. Bonn: Lemmens.

Huisman, J. & M.C. van der Wende. 2004. “The EU and Bologna: Are Supra and International Initiatives Threatening Domestic Agendas?” European Journal of Education. 39: 349-359.

Jones, Hywel Ceri. 2005. “Lifelong Learning in the European Union: Whither the Lisbon Strategy?” European Journal of Education 40: 247-60.

Kaiser, Frans, Harm Hillegers, and Iwen Legro. 2005. “Lining up Higher Education – Trends in Selected Higher Education Statistics in Ten Western Countries.” CHEPS – International Higher Education Monitor Trend Report.

Labi, Aisha. 2006. “European Higher Education Falling Behind, Report Warns.” Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A52.

McMurtrie, Beth. 2006. “Europe's Education Chief Seeks Trans-Atlantic Cooperation.” Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A39.

Neave, Guy. 2005. “Europhiliacs, Eurosceptics and Europhobics: Higher Education Policy, Values and Institutional Research.” Tertiary Education and Management 11: 113-129.

Neave, Guy. 2003. “Institutional Research: from Case-study to Strategic Instrument.” In The Dialogue between Higher Education Research and Practice: 25 years of EAIR, ed. Begg, R. Isbn 1 402 01505 4

Neave, Guy. 2003. “On Scholars, Hippopotami and von Humboldt.” Higher Education Policy 16: 135-140.

Neave, Guy. 2003. “The Bologna Declaration: Some of the Historic Dilemmas Posed by the Reconstruction of the Community in Europe's Systems of Higher Education.” Educational Policy 17: 141-164.

Rocca, Francis X. 2006. “British Study Urges European Universities to Raise or Introduce Tuition.” The Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A40.

Schatzman, Margit A. 2005. “The Bologna Process: Impact on Transatlantic Exchange from the North American Credential Review and Admission Perspective.” Institute of International Education.

Wende, M.C. van der & R. Middlehurst. 2004. “Cross-Border Post-Secondary Education: Regional Case Study on Europe." In Internationalisation and Trade in Higher Education - Opportunities and Challenges. Paris: OECD/CERI.

Wößmann, Ludger and Gabriela Schütz. 2006. “Efficiency and Equity in European Education and Training Systems: Analytical Report for the European Commission.” Prepared by the European Expert Network on Economics of Education.

Van Vught, F.A., J. Bartelse, D. Bohmert, N. Burquel, J. Divis, J. Huisman &. M.C. van der Wende. 2005. “Institutional Profiles. Towards a Typology of Higher Education Institutions in Europe." Report to the European Commission.

Yonezawa, Akiyoshi and Frans Kaiser, eds. 2003. “System-level and Strategic Indicators for Monitoring Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Studies on Higher Education.” Bucharest: UNESCO-CEPES.

The Economist. 2005. “Head in the clouds.” 10 September.

Germany

Hochstettler, Thomas John. “Aspiring to Steeples of Excellence at German Universities.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 50: B10.

Kehm, Barbara M. 2006. “Tuition Fee Reform in Germany.” International Higher Education 45: 2-3.

Labi, Aisha. 2004. “Germany's Ivy League Lottery - Fiscal and Political Disputes Hamper Plans to Develop Elite Universities.” Chronicle for Higher Education 50: A33.

Labi, Aisha. 2006. “Germany Moves Closer to Restructuring Its University System.” Chronicle for Higher Education 52: A47.

Landler, Mark. 2006. “Seeking Quality, German Universities Scrap Equality.” New York Times, 20 October.

Rastetter-Gies, Susan. 2004. “England, Not America, as Germany's Model.” Chronicle for Higher Education 51: B17.

Vogel, Gretchen. 2006. “A German Ivy League Takes Shape.” Science 314: 400.

France

Descoings, Richard. 2006. “Universities: A social duty.” OECD Observer 255.

Labi, Aisha. 2005. “Lessons From -- Quelle Horreur! -- les Américains - France's Venerable Political-Science Institute Adopts Controversial Reforms.” The Chronicle in Higher Education 50: A66.

Hong Kong

Altbach, Philip G. and Gerard Postiglione. 2006. “Can Hong Kong Keep Its Lead in the Brain Race?” International Higher Education 45: 24-6.

Chan, David and Ka-Ho Mok. 2001. “Educational Reforms and Coping Strategies under the Tidal Wave of Marketisation: Comparative study of Hong Kong and the Mainland.” Comparative Education 37: 21-41.

Hayhoe, Ruth. 2001. “Educational Reform and Higher Education in Hong Kong.” International Higher Education 23: 21-2.

Law, Wing-Wah. 2004. “Translating Globalization and Democratization into Local Policy: Educational Reform in Hong Kong and Taiwan.” International Review of Education 50: 497-524.

Mok, Ka Ho. 2000. “Impact of Globalization: A Study of Quality Assurance Systems of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Singapore.” Comparative Education Review 44: 148-74.

Japan

Amano, Ikuo and Gregory S. Poole. 2005. “Japanese University in Crisis.” Higher Education 50: 685-711.

Arani, Mohammad Reza Sarkar. 2004. “Policy of Education for the 21st Century in Developed and Developing Countries: Focus on Japan and Persian Gulf Region.” Journal of International Cooperation Studies 11: 101-30.

Arimoto, Akira. ed. 2002. “University Reform and Academic Governance Reconsidered: Report of the Six-Nation Higher Education Research Project.” Research Institute for Higher Education. 122p.

Brender, Alan. 2004. “In Japan, Radical Reform or Same Old Subservience? - National Universities Wonder How Much Freedom They Will Be Given Under Looser Government Oversight.” Higher Education 50: A39.

Brender, Alan. 2004. “Japan Recognizes U.S. and Other Foreign Universities on Its Soil.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 51: A38.

Doyon, Paul. 2001. “A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan.” Higher Education 41: 443-70.

Murasawa, Masataka. 2002. “The Future of Higher Education in Japan: Changing the Legal Status of National Universities.” Higher Education 43: 141-55.

Ono, Hiroshi. 2001. “Who Goes to College? Features of Institutional Tracking in Japanese Higher Education.” American Journal of Education 109:161-95.

Yakushiji, Taizo. 2002. “Changes in Japan’s Higher Education System.” Glocom Platform, 30 May.

Miscellaneous

Arbo, Peter and Paul Benneworth. 2006. “Understanding the Regional Contribution of Higher Education Institutions: A Literature Review.” Prepared for the OECD Institutional Management in Higher Education Programme “The Contribution of Higher Education to Regional Development.”

Douglass, John Aubrey. September 2006. “Universities and the Entrepreneurial State: Politics and Policy and a New Wave of State-Based Economic Initiatives.” CSHE.14.06.

Douglass, John Aubrey. December 2005. "How All Globalization is Local: Countervailing Forces and their Influence on Higher Education Markets." Higher Education Policy 18: 445-473.

Douglass, John Aubrey. "A Comparative Look at the Challenges of Access and Equity." Higher Education Policy. 18: 87-116.

Douglass, John Aubrey. May 2005. “The Dynamics of Variable Fees: Exploring Institutional And Public Policy Responses.” CSHE.5.05.

Greenberg, Milton. 2006. “The Power of Academic Citizenship.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 52: B20.

Huisman, J. & M.C. van der Wende, eds. 2005. “On Cooperation and Competition II. Institutional responses to Internationalisation, Europeanisation and Globalisation.” ACA Papers on International Cooperation. Bonn: Lemmens.

Jeliazkova, Margarita and Don F. Westerheijden. 2002. “Systemic Adaptation to a Changing Environment: Towards a Next Generation of Quality Assurance Models.” Higher Education 44: 433-48.

Lewis, Tania, Simon Marginson and Ilana Snyder. January 2005. “The Network University? Technology, Culture and Organisational Complexity in Higher Education.” Higher Education Quarterly 59: 56-75. [pdf 96kb]

Marginson, Simon and Gary Rhoades. “Beyond National States, Markets, and Systems of Higher Education: A Glonacal Agency Heuristic.” Higher Education 43: 281-309.

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “Putting 'Public' Back into the Public University.” Thesis Eleven 84: 44-59. [pdf 108Kb]

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education.” Higher Education 52: 1-39. [pdf 321Kb]

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line, Review of Book of That Title by David Kirp.” Teachers College Record 108: 434-438. [pdf 67Kb]

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “Engaging Democratic Education in the Neo-Liberal Age.” Educational Theory 56: 205-219. [pdf 85Kb ]

Marginson, Simon. June/July 2006. “Neo-qualms: on Hayek's Challenge.” Australian Book Review 282.

Marginson, Simon and Erlenawati Sawir. November 2005. “Interrogating Global Flows in Higher Education.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 3: 281-309. [pdf 104kb]

Marginson, Simon. December 2004. “Competition and Markets in Higher Education: a 'Glonacal' Analysis.” Editorial in Policy Futures in Education 2: 175-224. [pdf 442kb]

Marginson, Simon. December 2004. “University Futures.” Editorial in Policy Futures in Education 2: 159-174. [pdf 125kb]

Schuetze, Hans G. and Maria Slowey. 2002. “Participation and Exclusion: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Traditional Students and Lifelong Learners in Higher Education.” Higher Education 44: 309-27.

Shattock, M. L., ed. 2004. Entrepreneurialism and the Transformation of Russian Universities. Paris: UNESCO/IIEP.

Shattock, M. L. 2006. Managing Good Governance in Higher Education. Open University Press.

Torres, Carlos Alberto. 2001. “Globalization and Comparative Education in the World System.” Comparative Education Review 45: iii-x.

Van Damme, Dirk. 2001. “Quality Issues in the Internationalisation of Higher Education.” Higher Education. 41: 415-41.

Multi-National

Arimoto, Akira. 2002. “University Reforms and Academic Governance: Reports of the 2000 Three-Nation Workshop on Academic Governance.” Tokyo: RIHE International Publication Series 122p.

Douglass, John Aubrey. June 2006. “The Waning of America's Higher Education Advantage: International Competitors Are No Longer Number Two and Have Big Plans in the Global Economy.” CSHE.9.06.

Douglass, John Aubrey and David Ward. 2006. "Higher Education and the Specter of Variable Fees: Public Policy and Institutional Responses in the United States and United Kingdom." Higher Education Management and Policy (OECD) 18: 1-28.

Douglass, John Aubrey. January 2005. "The Dynamics of Massification and Differentiation: a Comparative Look at Higher Education Systems in the United Kingdom and California." Higher Education Management and Policy (OECD). 16: 7-34.

Douglass, John Aubrey. 2005. "A Transatlantic Persuasion: A Comparative Look at America's Path Towards Access and Equity in Higher Education." Chapter in The Politics of Access to Higher Education. David Palfreyman and Theodore Tapper, eds. Routledge-Falmer Press.

Lee, Michael H. and S. Gopinathan. 2003. “Hong Kong and Singapore’s Reform Agendas.” International Higher Education 32: 14-5.

Lipka, Sara. 2005. “15-Nation Study Finds Cheap Tuition Does Not Always Increase Access - High Average Incomes and Strong Student Aid in Some Countries Increase Participation in Higher Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 51: A46.

Marginson, Simon. 2006. “The Anglo-American University at its Global High Tide.” Minerva 44: 65-87. [pdf 218Kb]

Marginson, Simon and Erlenawati Sawir. 2006. “University Leaders' Strategies in the Global Environment: A Comparative Study of Universitas Indonesia and the Australian National University.” Higher Education 52: 343-373. [pdf 254Kb]

Marginson, Simon and Marcela Mollis. 2001. “The Door Opens and the Tiger Leaps: Theories and Reflexivities of Comparative Education for a Global Millennium.” Comparative Education Review 45: 581-615.

McBurnie, Grant and Christopher Ziguras. 2001. “The Regulation of Transnational Higher Education in Southeast Asia: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia.” Higher Education 42: 85-105.

Rhoades, Gary and Barbara Sporn. 2002. “Quality Assurance in Europe and the U.S.: Professional and Political Economic Framing of Higher Education Policy.” Higher Education 43: 355-90.

Weidman, Lisa K. Menendez. 2001. “Policy Trends and Structural Divergence in Educational Goverance: The Case of the French National Ministry and US Department of Education.” Oxford Review of Education 27: 75-84.

Netherlands

Van Der Wende, Marijk. 2002. “Reforms in Dutch Higher Education: The National Debate.” International Higher Education 26: 10-11.

Van Langen, Annemarie and Hetty Dekkers. 2001. “Decentralisation and Combating Educational Exclusion.” Comparative Education 37: 367-84.

Singapore

FitzPatrick, Paul. 2003. “Reinventing Singapore: Changing a Country’s Mindset by Changing Its Education System.” International Higher Education 31: 22-23.

Fong, Pang Eng and Linda Lim. 2005. “Manpower Planning and University Enrollments: The Debate in Singapore.” International Higher Education 41: 11-12.

United States

Altbach, Philip G. 2002. “Who Is Paying for Higher Education-and Why?” International Higher Education 27: 5-6.

Hebel, Sara. 2006. “Lumina Foundation Plans to Foster Ideas for Reducing College Costs.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 52: A15.

Hebel, Sara. “Report Card on Colleges Finds U.S. Is Slipping - Progress in America Slows as It Is Outperformed by Many Other Countries." The Chronicle of Higher Education 53: A1.

Mooney, Paul and Shailaja Neelakantan. 2004. “No longer Dreaming of America – India and China, Far Fewer Students Consider the U.S. the Best Place to Go.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 51: A41.

Thursby, Jerry and Marie Thursby. 2006. “Where is the New Science in Corporate R&D?” SCIENCE 314: 1547-8.

The Economist. 2005. “Secrets of Success.” 10 September.

The Economist. 2005. “Wandering Scholar.” 10 September.

United Kingdom

Douglass, John Aubrey. January 2005. "Less than the Sum of its Parts? What is Missing in UK Mass Higher Education?" Perspectives: Policy & Practice in Higher Education (UK) 9.

Higher Education Funding Council for England. 2006. “Widening Participation: A Review.” Report to the Minister of State for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Higher Education Regulation Review Group. 2005. “Less Regulated: More Accountable – Initial Report 2005.”

Palfreyman, David. 2006. “Markets, Models and Metrics in Higher Education.” Perspectives. OXCHEPS Occassional Paper No. 29.