Contrary to many other areas, international and, in particular, European influences on
national policymaking in higher education (HE) have remained limited. This picture …

Theoretically, the central research question of this article pertains to the way in which
national institutional arrangements, namely educational systems, and related modes of …

Three universal demands characterize higher education globally: the demand for higher
quality, for increased access, and for greater equity. In East Africa, where resources are …

The purpose of this study is to analyze changing patterns of governance in Korean higher
education through the window of the NPM, so as to compare policy developments in Korea …

The second half of the twentieth century has been a period of educational expansion in
western societies (Schofer and Meyer 2005). Germany, a country with a comparatively …

Education is a crucial determinant of individual life chances and the main predictor of young
people's labour market outcomes. The individual endowment of education resources is …

This article compares entry to their first stable employment among young people in Estonia
and Slovenia after the fall of Communism, when the two countries opted for two different …

Numerous countries are reportedly witnessing the bureaucratization of universities,
manifesting inter alia in a gradual increase in the administrative burden that overshadows …

Although there is a strong theoretical framework for the economic growth and its relationship
with education, the empirical evidence of this relationship is rather scarce. In this paper we …

This article examines the differential development of higher education governance in two
Central and Eastern European countries since 1989. In current discourse, the market …