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Rethinking Missions and Values of Higher Education

Insights from the Capability Approach and the Institutional Perspective

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Positioning Higher Education Institutions

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Nowadays, HEIs throughout the world face challenges that interfere not only with their functioning but also with their very identity as institutions. These are challenges stemming from the changed context both in society as a whole, in science and in the wider realm of education. Tapper and Palfreyman (2000) define the main problems facing contemporary universities as the three ‘Ms’: marketization, massification, and managerialism. The three ‘Ms’ create a completely new situation in higher education because they “attack” the traditional essence and founding principles of the university.

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  1. Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Pepka Boyadjieva

  2. Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

  3. Center for Public Policy Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

    Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

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    Rosalind M. O. Pritchard

  2. Danube University Krems, Austria

    Attila Pausits

  3. Birmingham City University, UK

    James Williams

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Boyadjieva, P., Ilieva-Trichkova, P. (2016). Rethinking Missions and Values of Higher Education. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Pausits, A., Williams, J. (eds) Positioning Higher Education Institutions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_3

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