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Higher Education Governance and Reforms

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Tertiary Education Management and Policy Changes

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In many countries, higher education systems have gone through a significant and rapid transition from being elite to being mass or universal in a relatively short period of time. “Elite” higher education can be understood as a historical approach to providing higher education to only a privileged few that preceded the transition to higher education for all (Trow 1974). It was characterized by limited and selective access based on birth, talent, or both of these; highly structured curricula; uninterrupted, full-time studies directly after secondary education; a small number of homogenous universities; institutional governance of small elite groups who shared basic values and assumptions in decision-making; and broadly shared and relatively high academic standards. In contrast, modern mass higher education is characterized by larger access with meritocratic criteria, flexible curricula, direct or delayed entry after...

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    Elias Pekkola & Jussi Kivistö

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Pekkola, E., Kivistö, J. (2016). Higher Education Governance and Reforms. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3019-1

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