Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Contributors -- Tradition and Change in Higher Education: Have the Managers Triumphed over the Academics? -- Part One: The Purpose and Role of Higher Education -- 1 Reinstating the Idea of Higher Education -- Response to Ronald Barnett -- 2 University = Diversity -- Pragmatics > Dogmatics -- Response to Ian McNay -- 3 Diversification and Elitism in Mass Higher Education -- 4 Rationalization and the Modern University -- 5 Is Small Still Beautiful? In Defence of Collegial Institutions of Higher Education -- 6 Learning Skills and Skills for Learning -- Part Two: The Changing Management Culture of Higher Education -- 7 The Culture of Political Correctness -- 8 The Management of Change in Higher Education -- 9 Judging Quality in Higher Education: Towards Bureaucratic Conformity -- 10 Formal Funding in Higher Education: Neither Centralized nor Decentralized -- 11 Principals, Agents, Producers and Consumers in Higher Education -- 12 From Policy to Practice: Staff Development in Higher Education - the Key to the Effective Management of Change -- 13 Travellers in a Strange World: Inequality and Discrimination against Women Academics and Its Negative Effects on Higher Education -- Travellers in a Strange World: A Response to Barbara Bagilhole -- 14 The Role of Teacher Unions in Higher Education -- Part Three: International Perspectives on Higher Education Reform -- 15 Educational Reform in the United States and the Former Soviet Union: Common Errors in State-directed Reform Efforts -- 16 Mobility or Brain Drain? Eye on International Faculty Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe -- 17 Reforms in Higher Education in Malaysia -- 18 Reforms in Higher Education: Culture and Control in the Middle East -- 19 Crisis in the Public Universities in Kenya.

20 Revitalizing University Education in Africa: Addressing What Is And What Is Not an Issue from Kenya's Perspective -- 21 Markets in a Socialist System: Reform of Higher Education in China -- 22 The University in Africa: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities -- 23 Limits to Change in University Education in Poland -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.