Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Reforming Higher Education for a Changing World (Pavel Zgaga, Ulrich Teichler, Hans G. Schuetze and Andrä Wolter) -- Section A. Changing Contexts and Directions -- The Future of Higher Education: A View Reflecting the Stateand the Tasks of Higher Education Research (Ulrich Teichler) -- Mass to Market Higher Education Systems:New Transitions or False Dawn? (Peter Scott) -- How to Gain Global Connectivity While Retaining Respect for Local Variations? A Reflection on Higher Education Reforms in South-east Europe (Pavel Zgaga) -- Section B. Changing Environments and Missions of Higher Education -- Introductory Note (Hans G. Schuetze) -- Reforming European Universities: The Welfare State as a Missing Context (Marek Kwiek) -- Higher Education Reform: Why Did It Start and Has It Ended? An Analysis of the Japanese Case (Shinichi Yamamoto) -- Trends in Chinese Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges (W. James Jacob and John N. Hawkins) -- Massification and Diversity: Has the Expansion of Higher Education Led to a Changing Compositionof the Student Body? European and German Evidence (Andrä Wolter) -- Section C. Academic Freedom: A Story Whose Ending is Uncertain -- Introductory Note (William Bruneau) -- Academic Freedom under Pressure: From Collegial Governance to New Managerialism (Rolf von Lüde) -- Academic Values and English Higher Education (Rosalind M. O. Pritchard) -- Five Defences of Academic Freedom in North American Higher Education (William Bruneau) -- Section D. Globalization, Privatization and the Futureof Public Higher Education -- Introductory Note (Germán Álvarez-Mendiola) -- Trends in Private Higher Education in Mexico (Germán Álvarez-Mendiolaand Mitzi Danae Morales Montes).

Can Reform Policies be Reformed? An Analysis of the Evaluation of Academics in Mexico (Wietse de Vriesand and Germán Álvarez-Mendiola) -- Private Higher Education in Canada and the United States: Development, Reform, and Likely Futures (Hans G. Schuetze) -- Section E. Higher Education and Lifelong Learning -- Introductory Note (Andrä Wolter) -- After Decades of Declamation: Higher Education on the Move towards Lifelong Learning? (Ulrich Teichler) -- Higher Education and Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century: Policies and the Current State of Realization in Europe (Anna Spexard) -- Intergenerational Equality and Higher Education: Towardsan Age-Friendly Higher Education? (Maria Slowey) -- Opening up Higher Education for New Target Groupsin Germany: A Case Study for the Development of University Lifelong Learning (Andrä Wolter) -- MOOCs: Hype or Hope? Conflicting Narratives in Higher Education Policy (Maureen W. McClure) -- Editors -- Contributors -- Index.