Abstract
All of the higher education (HE) system reforms implemented in western countries over the last three decades have had one fundamentally important aim, namely that of changing the existing institutional and system governance arrangements. The logic underlying such measures has remained substantially the same in each case, although the instruments adopted to achieve the aforesaid aim have differed, depending on the characteristics of the various systems and the nature of their historical heritage.
Within this general framework, Italy is a latecomer to a scenario where attempts at university reform have been characterized by considerable difficulties, and have been blighted by the poor quality of policy design which has compromised their ability to achieve the desired results.
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These universities have been chosen on the basis of location and size. In Northern Italy, we studied the Universities of Turin, Milan Bicocca, Insubria and Venice Cà Foscari; in Central Italy, the University of Florence, Rome III University, Marche Polytechnic and Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore; in Southern Italy, the Universities of Catania, Chieti, Salento and Naples (Napoli Orientale).
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In the UK: University College London (UCL), the University of Manchester, the University of Leicester; in Germany: the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Lüneburg (Leuphana); in France: the Universities of Paris-Sud, Strasbourg and Tours (uncompleted study); in Spain: the Universities of Barcelona (UB), Valencia and Zaragoza; in the Netherlands: the Universities of Amsterdam (UvA), Leiden and Maastricht.
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The empirical studies, in Italy as well as in the other European countries, have been conducted by two UNIRES (Italian Centre for Research on Universities and HE Systems) research teams, whose members we wish to thank. UNIRES is an inter-university research centre established by the universities of Milano, Bologna, Firenze and Pavia, together with the Fondazione CRUI (Conference of Italian University Rectors). Recently, the universities of Torino and LIUC (Università Carlo Cattaneo), as well as the Scuola Normale Superiore, have joined it. Members of the scientific council are Giliberto Capano (director), Marino Regini (president), Gabriele Ballarino, Alessandro Cavalli, Giancarlo Gasperoni, Roberto Moscati, Francesco Ramella, Gianfranco Rebora, Michele Rostan, Emanuela Stefani, Carlo Trigilia and Matteo Turri.The UNIRES research team dealing with the Italian case, coordinated by Giliberto Capano and Marino Regini, included Matteo Turri, Michele Rostan, Emanuela Stefani, Monia Anzivino, Nicole Casanova, Giorgio Mosconi and Elena Breno. As to the case studies of the 15 universities in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands, they were carried out by Matteo Turri, Emanuela Stefani, Maria Antonietta Ciclista, Sabrina Colombo, Valentina Goglio, Mattia Cattaneo, Davide Donina, Ilaria Genuessi, Michele Meoli and Flavio Porta, under the supervision of Giliberto Capano and Marino Regini. Both studies have been generously funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. The results have been published in Italian (Regini 2015a; Capano and Regini 2015).
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Capano, G., Regini, M., Turri, M. (2016). Introduction. In: Changing Governance in Universities. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54817-7_1
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