marketing activities universities have created the 'student consumer.' The student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare …, universities around the world are facing a perfect storm. While experts don't expect the higher education sector to collapse under … these challenges, they do believe that for some institutions the future looks bleak. If universities are to avoid closures …

Derwende (2007), 'The Paradox in International Cooperation: Institutionally Embedded Universities in a Global Environment … Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the Local Dimension Still Important?', Comparative Education, 37 (1 …-March, 155-76 -- Nian Cai Liu and Ying Cheng (2005), 'The Academic Ranking of World Universities', Higher Education in Europe, 30 …

comprehensive research universities …

the obstacles faced by researchers pursuing an academic career. From applying for grants to supervising Ph.D. students …

This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo …-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in … higher education. The authors argue that Continental and Nordic universities and higher education institutes are now facing …

major aspects are little understood. The authors argue that the nature of universities is changing as reduced public funding … the spinning-off of technology and knowledge generated by universities …

design that considers the needs and expectations of contemporary university students. Nicholas Jackson explains how to … improve student confidence and engagement by designing inclusive courses that center students in their learning. The … education learners. This book is indispensable to students and scholars of management education, teaching and learning …