Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change

Download or read book Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change written by Paul Trowler and published by Open University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book does not see policy and policy making as distinct from or 'above' processes of implementation and change. It acknowledges that policy is made in ways other than in formal settings of government or vice-chancellors' offices. Policy is also 'made' as it is received, interpreted and implemented in different locales, and it is made too as academics go about their daily business (whether they are aware of this or not). Therefore, this volume focuses on three levels of analysis: national policy making; institutional strategy; and the ground level of departments and individual academics. Examples from various countries (featuring, for instance, deregulation and new managerialism) are analysed in the light of recent theoretical understandings of the policy process, and they address the key question of how and why the intentions of policy makers often result in unintended consequences." "Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change captures the complexities, compromises, contradictions and localized character of policy making for, and change within, universities and colleges."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved