The European Research University - (Issues in Higher Education) by Guy Neave (Hardcover)

About the Book

A new look at the future of European research universities in the face of globalization and the changing knowledge economy

Book Synopsis

This book brings together leading scholars from both Europe and the United States to map out both present and long-term issues that the Research University must now tackle as Europe's place in the rapidly emerging global society is formed.

Review Quotes

"A truly outstanding collection of scholarly essays!" - Glen A. Jones, Professor of Higher Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

About the Author

GUY NEAVE is Professor of Comparative Higher Education Policy Studies at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies of Twente University, The Netherlands, and Director of Research at the International Association of Universities, Paris, France. Prior to returning to France in 1990, he was the Professor of Comparative Education at the University of London Institute of Education, UK. Guy Neave has written extensively on higher education policy in Western Europe.

KJELL BLÜCKERT is Research Secretary at The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. With an earned doctorate in Church History from Uppsala University, Sweden, his research area has been contemporary history and nationalism. Since 2000 he has been working at The Humanities and Social Sciences Donation in the Bank of Sweden Foundation, which finances larger interdisciplinary research projects.

THORSTEN NYBOM is Professor of History at Orebro University, Sweden. In 1997, together with Martin Trow, he publishedThe University and Society: Essays on the Social Role of Research and Higher Education (London, Jessica Kingsley).