Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jan Currie
  • Globalization and education policy in Australia / Janice Dudley
  • National higher education policies in a global economy / Sheila Slaughter
  • The changing political economy : the private and public lives of Canadian universities / Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson
  • The service university in service societies : the Norwegian experience / Arild Tjeldvoll
  • The last decade of higher education reform in Australia and France : different constraints, differing choices in higher education politics and policies / Richard Deangelis
  • Micro-economic reform through managerialism in American and Australian universities / Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
  • Don't count your blessings : the social accomplishments of performance indicators / Claire Polster and Janice Newson
  • Changing accountability and autonomy at the "coalface" of academic work in Australia / Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie
  • The entrepreneurial university : macro and micro perspectives from the United States / Edward H. Berman
  • Globalization and distance education mega-institutions : mega-ambivalence! / Mick Campion and David Freeman
  • Globalization, the OECD and the Australian higher education / Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi
  • Reshaping the educational agendas of Mexican universities : the impact of NAFTA / Heriberta Casta1B 7D E5 1B 7Enos-Lomnitz, Axel Didriksson, and Janice Newson
  • Introduction / Jan Currie
  • Globalization and education policy in Australia / Janice Dudley
  • National higher education policies in a global economy / Sheila Slaughter
  • The changing political economy : the private and public lives of Canadian universities / Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson
  • The service university in service societies : the Norwegian experience / Arild Tjeldvoll
  • The last decade of higher education reform in Australia and France : different constraints, differing choices in higher education politics and policies / Richard Deangelis
  • Micro-economic reform through managerialism in American and Australian universities / Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
  • Don't count your blessings : the social accomplishments of performance indicators / Claire Polster and Janice Newson
  • Changing accountability and autonomy at the "coalface" of academic work in Australia / Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie
  • The entrepreneurial university : macro and micro perspectives from the United States / Edward H. Berman
  • Globalization and distance education mega-institutions : mega-ambivalence! / Mick Campion and David Freeman
  • Globalization, the OECD and the Australian higher education / Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi
  • Reshaping the educational agendas of Mexican universities : the impact of NAFTA / Heriberta Castaδnos-Lomnitz, Axel Didriksson, and Janice Newson
  • Conclusion : repositioning the local through alternative responses to globalization / Janice Newson