This article addresses global postsecondary ranking systems by using critical-theoretical
perspectives on power. This research suggests rankings are at once a useful lens for …

Collegiality and managerialism are often portrayed as opposed ideas or practices, with the
latter, in particular, either held up as a necessary response to the massification of higher …

Much of the writing on higher education in recent years has tended to assume that the new
management push in higher education is both universal and irreversible. This paper …

Fifteen years ago Peter Drucker (cited in Massy 2003) predicted that “universities will be
relics in 30 years”. Although Drucker may have overstated the case, the fact is that …

Allocating and managing resources have always been important cornerstones of
institutional leadership. Institutional resources include financial, physical and human …

Abstract Changes in the governmental policies aiming at restructuring the Portuguese
Higher Education system and institutions have been, over the last years, defined under the …

New public management (NPM) approaches have informed policy in the public sector in
advanced countries in the last decade. Some authors suggest that the main objective of …

A progressive attempt to replace traditional public administration values and concepts by
others that are closer to private management can be observed in the replacement of the …

In Portugal, as elsewhere, the rhetoric of managerialism in higher education is becoming
firmly entrenched in the governmental policymakers' discourse and has been widely …

Abstract Changes in governmental policies designed to restructure the Portuguese higher
education system and its institutions are defined under the influence of New Public …