A Research Agenda for Global Higher Education

A Research Agenda for Global Higher Education is a welcome addition to the academic literature on evolving perspectives to conceptualize and conduct research on universities. This outstanding book succeeds in challenging all the contributing authors to go beyond the classical framework for analyzing universities and explore new approaches that could be more relevant for university research in the rapidly evolving global context. The book presents, in a provocative manner, a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of research issues related to the mission of universities and the many facets of operation that affect their performance and impact. Jeroen Huisman and Marijk van der Wende should be congratulated for putting this excellent book together. By proposing new research questions and recognizing emerging paradigms that may be more appropriate to understand recent trends affecting research on universities, including the multifaceted consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic viewed as a global experiment, this stimulating book provides a fresh intellectual perspective that is likely to become the new reference for guiding policy analysts and academics all over the world in thinking more holistically and critically about research on universities. -- Jamil Salmi, Diego Portales University, Chile Higher education, and higher education research, are extremely important and expanding areas of activity. This book offers elements of a contemporary research agenda for higher education across the globe, with specific reference to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers compelling and entertaining insights for all those concerned with the field and its future development, and should stimulate further work. -- Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK This important book highlights the benefits to higher education research of increasing international cooperation. Contributors from different disciplines explore whether the key challenges are similar worldwide or specific to certain regions, countries or sectors of higher education. Growth and quality enhancement in this domain have not only contributed to concepts of typical academic consolidation, but have also led to growing interest in stimulating each other to explore jointly possible futures of higher education. -- Ulrich Teichler, University of Kassel, Germany

Edited by Jeroen Huisman, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium and Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Higher Education, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents: 1 Reflections on a global agenda: on variety, fragmentation, change, and the big questions ahead 1 Jeroen Huisman and Marijk van der Wende 2 Open systems in a changing global context 19 Marijk van der Wende 3 Researching governance in higher education: trends, issues and challenges 43 Jeroen Huisman and Futao Huang 4 Sustainable resourcing of higher education 61 Simon Roy 5 Researching quality assurance: accomplishments and future agendas 81 Lee Harvey and Bjrn Stensaker 6 Re-approaching Europeanisation: how to know the unknown? 97 Amlia Veiga 7 Rethinking international mobility 115 Jeyran Aghayeva 8 Researching research universities in Africa 131 Nico Cloete, Franois van Schalkwyk, Jos Winnink and Robert Tijssen 9 Re-engaging with the Global South: new directions for research into universities and their relations with society 153 Siew Fang Law and William Locke 10 Enduring the crisis or embracing the change? Impact of COVID-19 transboundary crisis on universities as organizations 175 Davide Donina and Dominik Antonowicz 11 Facing the change beyond COVID-19: continuous curriculum improvement in higher education using learning analytics 197 Isabel Hilliger and Mar Prez-Sanagustn 12 Embedding global citizenship in the undergraduate curriculum: a case study from psychology 215 Madeleine Pownall, Richard Harris and Pam Blundell-Birtill Index