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The Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western Europe

The Prince and His Pleasure

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  • © 2012

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Part of the book series: Issues in Higher Education (IHIGHER)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. The Promise of the Evaluative State Evaluated

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About this book

This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.

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"A rich account of current developments with respect to the relationship between the state and higher education, highly rewarding

for those that dare to invest in the detailed account provided." - Higher Education Policy

Authors and Affiliations

  • CIPES, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Guy Neave

About the author

GUY NEAVE Director of Research at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Portugal. He has written extensively on higher education policy in western Europe and was Editor in Chief of the Encyclopaedia of Higher Education.

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