Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents …

Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers …), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of external …

This major volume sheds light on the changing relationship between higher education and the economy in the major … European nations. It is the outcome of extensive comparative research on higher education institutions and the economy in six …

will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners …

/quality consequences with which higher education is fraught. Providing many compelling insights into the issues plaguing higher education …

Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today … permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that expects higher education to address problems that are well beyond … between those who fund higher education and those who benefit from it. …

Higher education is beginning to play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization, which promotes … covered include the economic benefits of higher education, student choice of subject and university, the technology of higher … education, empirical research on the cost functions faced by universities, the funding and financing of university education …