The evaluative state, institutional autonomy and re-engineering higher education in Western Europe : the prince and his pleasure / Guy Neave.
"This vigorous study provides an alternative framework for reflecting on the changes in Western Europe's higher education systems over the past quarter century. Building from two basic concepts ₆ the rise of the evaluative state and the shifts in meaning and definition of positional and in...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Series: | Issues in higher education (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: A world set upside down. Setting the Scene ; The Many Faces of Autonomy: Institutional, Positional and Linguistic ; The Evaluative State: a Formative Concept and an Overview ; The Significance of Evaluative Homogeneity.
- PART II: Re-engineering two higher education systems. France: The Asterix Syndrome and the Exceptional Case ; Strengthening the Evaluative State: Strategy, Values and Rhetoric ; Discord Dissected: the French New University and some of its Discontents ; Spain: Defining Autonomy, Setting up Evaluation.
- PART III: Portugal a focused account. Portugal: Laying out the Higher Education Landscape ; The Dynamic in Portugal's Higher Education Policy ; Re-focusing Institutional Autonomy: the 2007 Decree Law ; Reform at the Edge that Cuts: The Institutional Level ; Portuguese Higher Education Reform: Four Key Dimensions.
- PART IV: Two conclusions and an envoi. A Flight over the Evaluative State Evolving ; Portugal and its Neighbours ; Re-engineering the University: Policy as Endgame ; Envoi: An Opening Gambit on a Board with no White Squares.