International Trends in University Governance

Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London; he was previously Registrar of the University of Warwick. He is a leading authority on university governance and has published over 90 articles and chapters and 10 books, the most recent of which are: Managing Good Governance in Higher Education (2006), Managing Successful Universities (2010) and Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945–2011 (2012). He is widely known for his international advisory work in the field of governance and management of systems and institutions of higher education.

• List of Contributors Series Editor’s Introduction 1.The context of ‘modernising’ reforms in university governance The Humboldtian model: Germany, Norway, Finland 2. New forms of governance in Germany 3. Troublesome institutional autonomy. Governance and the distribution of authority in Norwegian universities 4. Finnish University Reform: background, conditioning circumstances and… the reality The Napoleonic model: France, Italy 5. The impact of recent reforms on the institutional governance of French universities 6. Autonomy for what? The university mission in a centralised higher education system—the case of Italy The Japanese model: Japan 7. Reforming national universities in Japan: implications for governance The historically incorporated model: the UK, Australia and the USA 8. University governance in the UK: bending the traditional model 9. International, hierarchical and market influences on Australian university governance 10. Academic governance in the US: implications of a ‘commons’ perspective 11. Autonomy, self government and the distribution of authority: international trends in university governance

"In chasing international trends, this book contributes to the literature by drawing upon the seismic transformations of the last decade to analyse the impact upon national traditions (and regional models) of university governance." - Jen Tsen Kwok, Australian Universities' Review, September 2015