Higher education in a globalized world: governance, competition and performance - Mathias Dewatripont - Universite De Bruxelles Eds - broché - Etude

The analysis of universities is a topic which attracts more and more attention in social sciences, and especially in economics since the connection between the functioning of higher education and economic growth is increasingly recognized. The various chapters of this book, many of which have been published in international academic journals, are therefore interesting in a double perspective : from a "pure research" point of view but also, for many of them, from a public policy point of view. This is especially true for the first set of chapters, which focus on the "organization of higher education systems" , including (i) discussions of pleas for higher inflows of (public and private) money and for institutional reforms to improve their "value for money"; and (ii) evaluations of existing reforms, like the Bologna process which favors compatibility between teaching programmes and the mobility of students. The second set of chapters concerns the positioning of "individual higher educati