Accountability in higher education: global perspectives on trust and power
New York, NY
Routledge
xv, 270 p.; 25 cm
International studies in higher education
Includes bibliographical references and index
edited by Bjrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey
Introduction and overview of the book / Bjrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability: understandings and challenges / Bjrn 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 & Patricio 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 / Andre Sursock -- Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-Jose 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 Jose Rosa -- Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy -- Conclusions and reflections / Bjrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey