Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education

1. Mergers and Alliances in Context
Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper

Part I. Mergers and Alliances from the Perspective of National Higher Education Systems

2. Mergers and Alliances in France: Incentives, Success Factors and Obstacles
Andrée Sursock

3. Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles
Liviu Andreescu, Radu Gheorghiu, Alina Irimia, Adrian Curaj

4. Collaboration Between Universities in Sweden
Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey

5. Reorganising the Welsh University System
Philip Gummett

6. Institutional Mergers in Ireland
Siobhan Harkin, Ellen Hazelkorn

7. Institutional Mergers in Chinese Higher Education
Rui Yang

8. Institutional Culture of Mergers and Alliances in South Africa
Martin Hall

9. Institutional Combinations and the Creation of a New Higher Education Institutional Landscape in Post-1994 South Africa
Saleem Badat

Part II. Mergers and Alliances at the Institutional Level – Experiences and Lessons

10. Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester – An Update
Luke Georghiou

11. The Experience with Creating University of Lorraine by Merging Four Former Universities
Jean-Pierre Finance, Hervé Coilland, Pierre Mutzenhardt

12. Strategic Aggregation of Universities in Spain: The Spanish Program International Campus of Excellence and the Experience of the Technical University of Madrid
Luis Delgado, Gonzalo León

13. The Process of Merging Romanian Universities: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – North University of Baia Mare
Radu Munteanu, Dan Călin Peter

14. The Experience of University of Western Sydney, Australia
Rhonda Hawkins

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education