Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

1. Structural Reform in European Higher Education: An Introduction
Harry de Boer, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Don F. Westerheijden

Part I. Horizontal Differentiation Processes

2. Reform of the Fachhochschulen in Austria
Attila Pausits

3. Partial Horizontal Differentiation in Croatian Higher Education: How Ideas, Institutions and Interests Shape the Policy Process
Jelena Brankovic, Martina Vukasovic

4. Strengthening Research at the Dutch ‘Hogescholen’: From Ideas to Institutionalization
Harry Boer

5. Pulling the Plug in a Bathtub: The Big Consequences of a Small Change in Norwegian Higher Education
Mari Elken, Nicoline Frølich

6. The Government Response to the Private Sector Expansion in Poland
Dominik Antonowicz, Marek Kwiek, Don F. Westerheijden

Part II. Vertical Differentiation Processes

7. The Danish UNIK Initiative: An NPM-Inspired Mechanism to Steer Higher Education
Kaare Aagaard, Harry de Boer

8. France: Initiatives for Excellence
Emmanuel Boudard, Don F. Westerheijden

9. The International Campus of Excellence Initiative in Spain
Marco Seeber

Part III. Institutional Relationships

10. Setting Up Associations in Flemish Higher Education
Jeroen Huisman, Jelle Mampaey

11. Finnish mergers: Change in the Context of Continuity
Terhi Nokkala, Jussi Välimaa

12. Policy-Making for Structural Reforms in the Welsh Higher Education Landscape
Nadine Zeeman, Paul Benneworth

13. Structural Reforms in European Higher Education: Concluding Reflections
Harry de Boer, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Don F. Westerheijden

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Public Policy, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education