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Title:

Accountability in higher education : global perspectives on trust and power / edited by Bj©ırn Stensaker, Lee Harvey.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xv, 270 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Educational accountability--Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Higher--Evaluation--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Stensaker, Bj©ırn
Harvey, Lee, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction and overview of the book / Bj©ırn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability: understandings and challenges / Bj©ırn 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 & Patr©Ưcio 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 / Andr©♭ Sursock -- Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-Jos©♭ 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 Jos©♭ Rosa -- Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy -- Conclusions and reflections / Bj©ırn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.

Series:

International studies in higher education

ISBN:

0203846168 (alk. paper)
9780203846162 (alk. paper)
0415871956 (alk. paper)
9780415871952 (alk. paper)
0415871964 (alk. paper)
9780415871969 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)491890045

LCCN:

2010007841

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)