Transforming Universities

Changing Patterns of Governance, Structure and Learning in Swedish Higher Education

Marianne Bauer, Susan Marton, Berit Askling and Ference Marton

Number 48 in the Higher Education Policy series

Paperback: £39.99 / $69.95

1999, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-675-1, BIC 2: JNM JNC

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The formation of higher education policy is a political process, and a change in government can have a substantial effect on higher education policy, resulting in dramatic system reform. Transforming Universities shows how such changes can affect institutional conditions and academic working and values, using the highly politicized Swedish system as a case study.

The book examines the implications of reforms for a higher education system on three levels - the state, the institution and the individual. The authors develop the links between policy formation at state level, type of institutional autonomy and conditions for learning at individual level, and argue that higher education policy makers need to focus on improving knowledge formation.

Author information

• Marianne Bauer
• Susan Marton
• Berit Askling
• Ference Marton

Subject areas

• Education

Keywords

• education,
• higher education policy

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