Academic freedom, autonomy and accountability in British universities

Berdahl, Robert O.

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“…We begin with general HE arrangements, which are closely related to the allocation of procedural autonomy (Berdahl, 1990) and balance of power between the state, university management, and the professoriate. Specifically, who bears the greatest thrust of decision-making, to what extent is decision-making driven by entrepreneurial considerations, and which actors assume the most significant controlling functions in HE?…”

Section: General He Arrangementsmentioning

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Higher education governance in France, Germany, and Italy: Change and variation in the impact of transnational soft governance

Dobbins

Knill

2017

Policy and Society

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There is a consensus that transnational soft governance has unleashed the forces of change in higher education. However, individual national HE systems are still anchored in country-specific regulatory regimes, which reflect national-historical, institutional, and cultural developments. Against this background, three crucial questions guide our study: How does the state react to transnational pressures for change? How is transnationally inspired policy change 'digested' by the preexisting country-specific governance structures? And to what extent have national HE systems converged on a common governance model? To address these questions, we conduct a multilevel comparative analysis of developments in Germany, France, and Italy. We first break down the concept of higher education governance into sub-dimensions and derive concrete policy indicators for three historically embedded governance ideal types. Drawing on historical institutionalism and institutional isomorphism, we explore how historical legacies and transnational communication have impacted policy pathways over the past 30 years. We graphically illustrate the policy trajectories using our 'governance triangles' , which encompass the balance of power between multiple actors, including the state and universities, university management and the academic profession, and external stakeholders.

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Section: General He Arrangementsmentioning

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Higher education governance in France, Germany, and Italy: Change and variation in the impact of transnational soft governance

Dobbins

Knill

2017

Policy and Society

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“…In this research, regulation is understood as a law that affects the university's freedom to operate. The law, among other things, defines the autonomy or the degree of freedom the university has to steer itself (see OECD, 2008;Jongbloed, 2004;EUA, 2010;Anderson & Johnson 1998;Ashby & Anderson 1966;Berdahl 1990;Verhoest et al, 2004). It is the relationship between the state and universities (Dill 2001;Ordorika 2003).…”

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“…Various funding mechanisms by which the national governments make finance available to universities can be thus identified: output or performance based funding, targeted funding, competitive funding, etc. (Massy, 1996;Hauptman & Salmi, 2006;Williams, 1992:141 Berdahl (1990) to distinguish between procedural and substantive autonomy.…”

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Revenue generation strategies in Sub-Saharan African universities

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“…Haskell (1997), for example, finds that student evaluations of faculty members can seriously impinge on their academic freedom, leading teachers to lower their teaching and exam standards, lower their classroom requirements and adjusting courses to popular beliefs and notions. Berdahl (1990) criticises the introduction of competition as a method of quality control because it risks undermining the academic integrity of universities. 127.…”

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Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships

Steets

2010

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Academic freedom, autonomy and accountability in British universities

Cited by 165 publications

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Higher education governance in France, Germany, and Italy: Change and variation in the impact of transnational soft governance

Higher education governance in France, Germany, and Italy: Change and variation in the impact of transnational soft governance

Revenue generation strategies in Sub-Saharan African universities

Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships

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