Hans G. Schuetze & Germán Álvarez Mendiola 
State and Market in Higher Education Reforms [PDF ebook] 
Trends, Policies and Experiences in Comparative Perspective

Universities have never been static. Even so, it is fair to say they have experienced a most radical transformation in the past twenty years. During this period, the role and responsibility of the state generally have been broadly limited while allowing ‘market forces’–private ownership and control–more influence. But even where the state is still the main provider or funder, it relies increasingly on ‘market mechanisms’, for example contractual relations between state and institutions, competition among providers for resources, and external assessment of ‘outputs’ which means the results or impact of what universities do, in particular teaching and research. The new terminology speaks of price and competition, inputs and outputs, resources, cost and benefits, demand and supply, provider and customer, consumers and investors, quality control and accountability. Education, and post-secondary education especially are increasingly seen as matters for markets. Formal post-secondary education becomes a service, commercialized and traded across national borders. This volume on changing relationship between state and market, contains, besides an introductory analytic overview of the issues, accounts from different countries, regions, and thematic perspectives. Chapter authors describe and analyze government reforms and other developments that have directly or indirectly affected this relationship. Although the geographical focus is on North America, especially Mexico, South East Asia and Europe, the phenomenon is not limited to these regions and countries but worldwide.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; State and Market in Higher Education Reforms: Overview of the Issues; State and Market in Higher Education: Genealogy and Insufficiencies of a Conceptual Dichotomy; 1. THE AMERICAS; Marketizing Canadian Higher Education: An Examination of Recent Access Policy Reforms; Markets in Higher Education in Mexico and Latin America; Context and Regulation Matter: Mexican Private Higher Education 1990-2009; Change or Continuity in the Mexican Private Sector? The Case of Laureate – The University of the Valley of Mexico; State, Market, and Organizational Inertia: Reforms to Argentine University Education between 1990 and 2010; 2. EUROPE; Reconceptualizing Public Responsibility and Public Good in the European Higher Education Area; State, Market and Institution in German Higher Education – New Governance Mechanisms beyond State Regulation and Market Dynamics; From Humboldt to Market: Competition and Excellence as New Governance Principles in the German University System; 3. ASIA; “Walking on Two Legs”: A Policy Analysis of China’s Move to Mass Higher Education; Marketization in Chinese Higher Education; 4. CONCLUSIONS; Concluding Reflections. Between Humboldt and Newman: Marketization and Global Contributions in Contemporary Higher Education; List of Contributors.