Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development,...

"Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional...

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...

Contents: 1. Historical Background (The first decade. - After 1970: UDSM (University of Dar es Salaam) as a developmental university. - The 1980s: decade of decline. - Groping for solutions: the genesis of ITP (Institutional Transformation Programme). - External stimuli to the reform process). -...

1. Introduction. - 2. Historical Background (The last years of colonialism - a university for colonialists & assimilados. - Independence & socialism - central planning requires a utilitarian university. - Peace, democracy, a market economy and the emergence of non-governmental institutions of...

1. Mapping the European higher education landscape : new insights from the EUMIDA Project / Andreas Niederl ... [et al.] -- 2. Is there a European university model? : new evidence on national path dependence and structural convergence / Torben Schubert ... [et al.] -- 3. Public and private...