Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education

• Mergers and Alliances in Context. Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper.- Part I Mergers and Alliances from the Perspective of National. Higher Education Systems.- Mergers and Alliances in France: Incentives, Success Factors and Obstacles. Andrée Sursock.- Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles. Liviu Andreescu, Radu Georghiu, Alina Irimia, Adrian Curaj.- Collaboration Between Universities in Sweden. Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey.- Reorganising the Welsh University System. Philip Gummett.- Institutional Mergers in Ireland. Siobhán Harkin, Ellen Hazelkorn.- Institutional Mergers in Chinese Higher Education. Rui Yang.- Institutional Culture of Mergers and Alliances in South Africa. Martin Hall.- Institutional Combinations and the Creation of a New Higher Education Institutional Landscape in post-1994 South Africa. Saleem Badat.- Part II Mergers and Alliances at the Institutional. Level - Experiences and Lessons.- Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester – an update. Luke Georghiou.- The Experience with Creating University of Lorraine by Merging four Former Universities. Jean-Pierre Finance, Hervé Coilland, Pierre Mutzenhardt.- Strategic Aggregation of Universities in Spain: The Spanish Program International Campus of Excellence and the Experience of the Technical University of Madrid. Luis Delgado, Gonzalo León.- The Process of Merging Romanian Universities: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University of Baia Mare. Radu Munteanu, Dan Călin Peter.- The Experience of University of Western Sydney, Australia. Rhonda Hawkins.- About the Editors.- About the Authors.

"'Mergers and Allainces' is painstakingly researched; an extensive list of relevant citations can be found at the conclusion of each chapter - most of which are relatively up-to-date ... which lends credibility to the efficacy of the observations, conclusions and recommendations reached by the authors. ... I found 'Mergers and Alliances' to be a veritable gold mine of information and insights into the inner workings of higher education on a global scale." (Aaron W. Hughey, bgdailynews.com, July, 2015)