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1 online resource (xxi, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file PDF rda |
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Online access with purchase: Springer (t)
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Contents |
Mergers and alliances in context -- pt. I. Mergers and alliances from the perspective of national higher education systems -- Mergers and alliances in France : incentives, success factors and obstacles -- Mergers and classifications in Romania : opportunities and obstacles -- Collaboration between universities in Sweden -- Reorganising the Welsh university system -- Institutional mergers in Ireland -- Institutional mergers in Chinese higher education -- Institutional culture of mergers and alliances in South Africa -- Institutional combinations and the creation of a new higher education institutional landscape in post-1994 South Africa -- pt. II. Mergers and alliances at the institutional level : experiences and lessons -- Strategy to join the elite : merger and the 2015 agenda at the University of Manchester -- an update -- The experience with creating University of Lorraine by merging four former universities -- Strategic aggregation of universities in Spain : the Spanish program international campus of excellence and the experience of the Technical University of Madrid -- The process of merging Romanian universities : Technical University of Cluj-Napoca -- North University of Baia Mare -- The experience of University of Western Sydney, Australia. |
Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 7, 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
Summary |
Higher education in Europe and beyond faces a series of major challenges. The economic crisis has accelerated expectations of an increased role in addressing economic and societal challenges while, at the same time, putting pressure on available finances. Broader trends such as shifting student demographics and expectations, globalisation and mobility and new ways of working with business have contributed to these increased pressures. In the light of these trends there have been moves, both from national or regional agencies and from individual institutions to respond by combining resources, either through collaborative arrangements or more fundamentally through mergers between two or more universities. This volume seeks to draw upon recent and past experiences of mergers and associations short of a merger and to approach the subject both from a systemic level and from the perspective of individual institutions. Inevitably the two levels are interlinked but broadly speaking this distinction is used to separate Part 1, dealing with perspectives at the level of a nation and national system, although often illustrated by examples which extend the range of cases (for countries such as France, Sweden, Romania, Wales, China, South Africa), and Part 2, which takes us down to individual case-studies analysed in depth (in countries such as France, UK, Romania, Spain, Australia). These experiences of course also show responses to wider forces and initiatives but allow a more detailed insight into the specific rationales and the implementation issues involved in effecting a university merger. Within the sections the general flow is from large to medium to small European countries and then to non-European. The chapters of this volume tell stories and make contributions in their own right. An introductory chapter seeks to guide the reader by pointing out from the start some recurrent themes and tensions. In seeking to identify the phenomenon of university mergers, their causes and their consequences, a series of dichotomies are discussed: alliance vs merger; external vs internal motivation; education vs research; short-term vs long-term outcomes and assessment; and motivation and implementation. |
Local Note |
SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Mergers.
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Education, Higher -- Administration.
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Education.
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Education, Higher.
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Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
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Education, Higher. (OCoLC)fst00903005
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Education, Higher -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst00903010
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Universities and colleges -- Mergers.
(OCoLC)fst01161827
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Added Author |
Curaj, Adrian, editor. Editor.
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Georghiou, Luke, editor. Editor.
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Cassingena Harper, Jennifer, editor. Editor.
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Egron-Polak, Eva, editor. Editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mergers and alliances in higher education. Cham : SpringerOpen, 2015 9783319131344 (OCoLC)894311445 |
ISBN |
9783319131351 (electronic book) |
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3319131354 (electronic book) |
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9783319131344 (Print) |
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3319131346 (Print) |
Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-13135-1 doi |
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