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10 - Governance in Public and Private Higher Education in Europe: Patterns, Divergences, and Convergences

from Part II - Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2020

By
Pedro N. Teixeira  and
Robin Middlehurst
Edited by
Giliberto Capano  and
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Giliberto Capano
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Summary

Governance in higher education has been described as ambiguous, elusive, and abstract. Both the concept and the practice of governance are recognized as contested, given tensions between different levels of authority and constituency interests: lay or state, academic or institutional, faculty or students. We focus on developments in public and private higher education to illuminate potentially contradictory trends of convergence and divergence in emerging governance arrangements. The chapter draws on a range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives for interpreting current governance arrangements in the field of higher education and to highlight gaps in our understanding. The first section addresses the changing landscape of higher education and public–private distinctions in particular. The second focuses on governance arrangements in the arenas of public and private higher education and at the levels of system and institutional governance. The third section discusses theories of governance and their application to public and private higher education domains. The conclusion draws the analyses together, noting gaps and pointing to directions for further research.

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higher educationEuropepublic higher educationprivate higher educationgoverancefinancing of higher educationpublic–privatenot for profit higher education institutions
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Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
Comparative Perspectives
 , pp. 268 - 298
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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