Preliminary Material / Hans G. Schuetze , Germán Álvarez Mendiola and Dianne Conrad -- Introduction / Hans G. Schuetze and Germán Álvarez Mendiola -- State and Market in Higher Education Reforms: Overview of the Issues / Germán Álvarez Mendiola -- State and Market in Higher Education: Genealogy and Insufficiencies of a Conceptual Dichotomy / Rollin Kent -- Marketizing Canadian Higher Education: An Examination of Recent Access Policy Reforms / Dale Kirby -- Markets and Higher Education in Mexico and Latin America / Sylvie Didou -- Context and Regulation Matter: Mexican Private Higher Education 1990-2009 / Juan Carlos Silas Casillas -- Change or Continuity in the Mexican Private Sector? / Angélica Buendía Espinosa -- State, Market and Organizational Inertia: Reforms to Argentine University Education Between 1990-2010 / Ana García De Fanelli -- Reconceptualizing Public Responsibility and Public Good in the European Higher Education Area / Elsa Hackl -- State, Market and Institution in German Higher Education – New Governance Mechanisms Beyond State Regulation and Market Dynamics / Andrä Wolter -- From Humboldt to Market: Competition and Ecxellence as New Governance Principles in the German University System / Rolf Von Lüde -- “Walking on Two Legs”: A Policy Analysis of China’s Move to Mass Higher Education / Qiang Zha -- Marketization in Chinese Higher Education / Fengliang Zhu and Sumin Li -- Higher Education Reforms in Japan: Changing Relationship between Government and Universities / Shinichi Yamamoto -- Concluding Reflections. Between Humboldt and Newman: Marketization and Global Contributions in Contemporary Higher Education / Wietse De Vries and Maria Slowey -- List of Contributors / Hans G. Schuetze , Germán Álvarez Mendiola and Dianne Conrad.

Universities have never been static. Even so, it is fair to say they have experienced a most radical transformation in the past twenty years. During this period, the role and responsibility of the state generally have been broadly limited while allowing ‘market forces’—private ownership and control—more influence. But even where the state is still the main provider or funder, it relies increasingly on ‘market mechanisms’, for example contractual relations between state and institutions, competition among providers for resources, and external assessment of ‘outputs’ which means the results or impact of what universities do, in particular teaching and research. The new terminology speaks of price and competition, inputs and outputs, resources, cost and benefits, demand and supply, provider and customer, consumers and investors, quality control and accountability. Education, and post-secondary education especially are increasingly seen as matters for markets. Formal post-secondary education becomes a service, commercialized and traded across national borders. This volume on changing relationship between state and market, contains, besides an introductory analytic overview of the issues, accounts from different countries, regions, and thematic perspectives. Chapter authors describe and analyze government reforms and other developments that have directly or indirectly affected this relationship. Although the geographical focus is on North America, especially Mexico, South East Asia and Europe, the phenomenon is not limited to these regions and countries but worldwide.

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