In: International studies in higher education
Introduction and overview of the book / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability: understandings and challenges / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability in Australia: more power to government and market / Jeanette Baird -- Accountability in Africa: a disciplinary power in African higher education systems / Gerald Wangenge-Ouma and Patricio V. Langa -- Accountability in China: primitive attempts / Shuiyun Liu -- Accountability in Eastern Europe: becoming like everywhere else? / Paul Temple -- Accountability in Western Europe: shifting quality assurance paradigms / Andre Sursock -- Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-Jose Lemaitre -- Accountability in the United States: sorting through an American muddle / Robert Zemsky -- Accountability and cross-border higher education: dynamics, trends and challenges / Robin Middlehurst -- Transnational accountability initiatives: the case of the EUA-audits / Alberto Amaral and Maria Jose Rosa -- Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy -- Conclusions and reflections / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.
In: International studies in higher education
In: International studies in higher education
In: International Studies in Higher Education Ser.
Looks at accountability initiatives around the world. This title provides a comparative analysis of the promises, perils and paradoxes of accountability, and the potential effect on power structures and higher education autonomy, trust and the legitimacy of the sector
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