1 / 14

Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe

Empowering European Universities – Maastricht – 22nd-23rd June 2012. Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe. Pedro Teixeira CIPES and Faculty of Economics – U. Porto. Changing Times in European Higher Education.

tana
Download Presentation

Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. EmpoweringEuropeanUniversities – Maastricht – 22nd-23rd June 2012 ReformingHigherEducation for more InnovativeUniversities in Europe Pedro Teixeira CIPES and Faculty of Economics – U. Porto

  2. Changing Times in European Higher Education

  3. Markets and EuropeanHigherEducation: • Massification and Complexification; • Cost-disease and Risingcosts of HigherEducation; • An adverse PoliticalEconomy; • Fromanexpanding to a mature sector; • ChangingpurposesaboutHigherEducation

  4. A Changing Landscape in European Higher Education

  5. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: • ChangingPublic-PrivateMix • DifferentForms of Competition • ManipulatingSupply and Demand Forces • FosteringInstitutionalAutonomy • DevelopingQuasi-Markets

  6. Markets and Marketization in Higher Education

  7. Markets in HigherEducation: • Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Economy; • Public Vices vs. PrivateVirtues; • GovernmentFailures and MarketFailures; • Highereducation as a peculiar good; • Externalities and Informationalproblems; • Customer-cum-input;

  8. The Marketization of HEIs: From Systemic to Institutional Changes

  9. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: • Funding • HumanResources • Governance • Management

  10. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges – Funding: • Diversificationofstructureofrevenues • Performance-basedandcontractualizedpublic funding • FeesandStudents as payingcustomers • Differentiationandselectivity

  11. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: - HumanResources: • Growing autonomy • Decline of civil service ties • Assessment of performance and Differentiation of pay • Impacts on overall motivation and levels of satisfaction • Levels of commitment and non-visible institutional activities

  12. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges – Governance and Management: • A corporate-marketapproach to governanceanddecision-making • Reductionofcollegiality • The role ofexternalstakeholdersandtheirinternalization • Students as stakeholders vs. customers • Legitimacyofdecision-making: academic vs. managerial • HEIs as quasi-economicorganizations

  13. Concluding remarks: EppursiMuove?

  14. TransformingEuropeanHEIs • Changing responsiveness • Short term vs. long term responses • Financial and Academic sustainability • A differentiated impact across countries, disciplines, groups • A more diverse and stratified landscape • Combining Efficiency and Cohesiveness

More Related