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Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe

Empowering European Universities – Maastricht – 22nd-23rd June 2012. Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe. Pedro Teixeira CIPES and Faculty of Economics – U. Porto. Changing Times in European Higher Education.

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Reforming Higher Education for more Innovative Universities in Europe

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  1. EmpoweringEuropeanUniversities – Maastricht – 22nd-23rd June 2012 ReformingHigherEducation for more InnovativeUniversities in Europe Pedro Teixeira CIPES and Faculty of Economics – U. Porto

  2. Changing Times in European Higher Education

  3. Markets and EuropeanHigherEducation: • Massification and Complexification; • Cost-disease and Risingcosts of HigherEducation; • An adverse PoliticalEconomy; • Fromanexpanding to a mature sector; • ChangingpurposesaboutHigherEducation

  4. A Changing Landscape in European Higher Education

  5. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: • ChangingPublic-PrivateMix • DifferentForms of Competition • ManipulatingSupply and Demand Forces • FosteringInstitutionalAutonomy • DevelopingQuasi-Markets

  6. Markets and Marketization in Higher Education

  7. Markets in HigherEducation: • Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Economy; • Public Vices vs. PrivateVirtues; • GovernmentFailures and MarketFailures; • Highereducation as a peculiar good; • Externalities and Informationalproblems; • Customer-cum-input;

  8. The Marketization of HEIs: From Systemic to Institutional Changes

  9. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: • Funding • HumanResources • Governance • Management

  10. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges – Funding: • Diversificationofstructureofrevenues • Performance-basedandcontractualizedpublic funding • FeesandStudents as payingcustomers • Differentiationandselectivity

  11. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges: - HumanResources: • Growing autonomy • Decline of civil service ties • Assessment of performance and Differentiation of pay • Impacts on overall motivation and levels of satisfaction • Levels of commitment and non-visible institutional activities

  12. FromSystemic to InstitutionalChanges – Governance and Management: • A corporate-marketapproach to governanceanddecision-making • Reductionofcollegiality • The role ofexternalstakeholdersandtheirinternalization • Students as stakeholders vs. customers • Legitimacyofdecision-making: academic vs. managerial • HEIs as quasi-economicorganizations

  13. Concluding remarks: EppursiMuove?

  14. TransformingEuropeanHEIs • Changing responsiveness • Short term vs. long term responses • Financial and Academic sustainability • A differentiated impact across countries, disciplines, groups • A more diverse and stratified landscape • Combining Efficiency and Cohesiveness

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