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This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher
education by examining developments of this type in different
countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the
heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior
officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert
analysts of the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces
a series of major challenges. The economic crisis has accelerated
expectations of an increased role in addressing economic and
societal challenges while at the same time putting pressure on
available finances. Broader trends such as shifting student
demographics and expectations, globalisation and mobility and new
ways of working with business have contributed to these increased
pressures. In the light of these trends there have been moves, both
from national or regional agencies and from individual institutions
to respond by combining resources, either through collaborative
arrangements or more fundamentally through mergers between two or
more universities. After an introductory chapter by the editors
which establishes the context for mergers and alliances, the book
falls into two main parts. Part 1 takes a national or
regional perspective to give some sense of the historical context,
the wider drivers and the importance of these developments in these
cases. Included are both systemic accounts (for countries as
France, Sweden, Romania, Russia, Wales and England), and specific
cross-cutting in itiatives including a major facility at Magurele
in Romania and a Spanish programme for promoting international
campuses of excellence. Part 2 is built from specific cases
of universities, either in mergers or alliances, with examples from
different countries (such as France, UK, Romania, Spain, Germany,
Denmark, Finland, Switzerland). AÂ concluding chapter by the
editors assesses these experiences and indicates the implications
and future needs for understanding in this domain.
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher
education by examining developments of this type in different
countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart
of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials
responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of
the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces a series of
major challenges. The economic crisis has accelerated expectations
of an increased role in addressing economic and societal challenges
while at the same time putting pressure on available finances.
Broader trends such as shifting student demographics and
expectations, globalisation and mobility and new ways of working
with business have contributed to these increased pressures. In the
light of these trends there have been moves, both from national or
regional agencies and from individual institutions to respond by
combining resources, either through collaborative arrangements or
more fundamentally through mergers between two or more
universities. After an introductory chapter by the editors which
establishes the context for mergers and alliances, the book falls
into two main parts. Part 1 takes a national or regional
perspective to give some sense of the historical context, the wider
drivers and the importance of these developments in these cases.
Included are both systemic accounts (for countries as France,
Sweden, Romania, Russia, Wales and England), and specific
cross-cutting in itiatives including a major facility at Magurele
in Romania and a Spanish programme for promoting international
campuses of excellence. Part 2 is built from specific cases of
universities, either in mergers or alliances, with examples from
different countries (such as France, UK, Romania, Spain, Germany,
Denmark, Finland, Switzerland). A concluding chapter by the editors
assesses these experiences and indicates the implications and
future needs for understanding in this domain.
International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and
complexity of international education in an interconnected and
globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international
educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take
stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and
demonstrate why international higher education is more essential
now than ever before. Responding to a timely global moment where
education and international engagement are being redefined and
practiced in new ways, the authors call for a reconsideration of
paradigms and critical reflection of the entire field of
international education. At the same time, the authors show how
international education is an imperative for the future of learning
and the world, and also, crucially, that this work cannot be done
in a silo. International Education at the Crossroads offers readers
a chance to join in the conversation that is as global as it is
meaningful in communities, the lives of learners, and institutions
around the world. International education requires that everyone
the world over work together to produce new knowledge, to navigate
the "crossroads," and to collectively chart the directions in which
the field will move into the future.
Romania is an active player in various international higher
education areas, while undergoing a series of higher education
reforms within its national framework. The Higher Education
Evidence Based Policy Making: a necessary premise for progress in
Romania project was implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher
Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
in the timeframe February 2012 - February 2014, being co-financed
by the European Social Fund through the Operational Programme
"Administrative Capacity Development". The project aimed to
increase the capacity of public administration for evidence-based
policy making in the field of higher education, while focusing on
good practices at international level and impact assessment. With
the contribution of the national and international experts, the
project has generated a number of analysis and studies on the
existing higher education public policies (quality assurance,
internationalisation, equity, data collection, the Bologna Process,
financing of higher education). Based on the results of the
project, the book will reunite a number of policy research articles
which would tap into the innovative aspects of the project's
activities and provide a concise overview of what good practices
can be drawn from the empirical research conducted in this project.
The book will therefore aim to improve the information on Romanian
higher education reforms, as well as on the concrete evidence-based
policy proposals which could be transformed into future policy
solutions in the Romanian higher education system.
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