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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education :International Practice and Emerging Opportunities

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For more than two decades, Romania’s higher education system has been undergoing reforms, experiencing far-reaching changes and striving for academic excellence. The rate of change has been accelerated by a multitude of factors. Among them, the growing demand of a diversified public for higher education qualification and the ever-increasing societal expectations with regard to higher education’s contributions to the country’s prosperity and to job creation played an important role. In addition, globalization and internationalization raised dramatically the impact of rankings and transparency tools, bringing forth the growing role of private higher education and generating the massification of higher education, while also changing student needs and expectations. The two key developments
at the European level, the Bologna Process and the Lisbon Strategy, have introduced an unprecedented dynamic to such transformations.
Institutional differentiation and inter-university cooperation have recently become strategically important for each university in Romania, particularly so when considering the demographic decline, which has led to a diminishing demand for higher education and the shrinking of public resources during the period of economic crisis. In order to meet the emerging challenges facing higher education
institutions, the new Law on Education in Romania, adopted in 2011, explicitly refers to mergers in higher education, setting out a “soft framework” for university concentrations. Soon after the law was adopted, groups of universities in Romania engaged in merger negotiations. Some of these negotiations have already been concluded, some have failed, while other institutions are simply and cautiously
exploring their options. What could and should be done in Romania to “walk the talk”? How would the existing international experiences help in taking advantage of the potential benefits of merger or alliance processes or other forms of concentration of resources, while avoiding the unintended consequences? Are there topdown, bottom-up or a wider diversity of strategies, interventions and options? Are there lessons to be learned and experiences to be shared in Europe and around the
globe? How do we measure their impact? How much prospective thinking would help and when? The subject of higher education collaborations, be they alliances or mergers, concentrations or amalgamations, is of interest not just nationally but also at the international level. It has generated a recent spate of new processes, many of which are yet to be researched in depth, to respond to questions such as the following: are these developments a fashion, are they about the efficiency-effectiveness of using
resources or just about building of critical mass in areas where existing experiences and competences are far from reaching their potential, are they driven by existing fragmentation and duplications, etc.? There are top-down interventions and bottomup initiatives, all of them aiming to strengthen institutions and improve their performance. However, the question that constantly looms large concerns primarily the optimal strategy at work and the intended or unintended consequences of such endeavours.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

378 Mer

Penerbit

: Springer International Publishing., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

xxi, 307 hlm.

Bahasa

Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

9783319131351

Klasifikasi

378

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

PENDIDIKAN TINGGI
UNIVERSITAS
PERGURUAN TINGGI

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