This article examines the significance of global trends in higher education (HE) development
in Hong Kong between 1997 and 2012. Two trends, massification and internationalisation …

This article aims to uncover the dimensions or characteristics of corporate governance in the
literature of public relations that are also related to communication. We employed a …

The first section, Philosophical and theoretical foundations, includes a range of sociological,
political and linguistic approaches to examining ideology in an educational context. The …

In the past few centuries, an accelerating process of legalization and classification have
moulded the diverse range of earlier institutions into a limited number of isomorphic …

Purpose This paper aims to analyze how the legitimacy of the policy of external quality
assurance (EQA) in Colombian higher education has evolved over the past 30 years …

Doctoral education in Europe has changed significantly in the last two to three decades. This
transformation, visible in the structuring dimensions of doctoral education, appears to …

Research into differentiation and profiling of knowledge producing institutions through the
lenses of institutional logics and field embeddedness have proliferated in recent years. By …

This paper puts in perspective the reforms of the Portuguese and Finnish higher education
(HE) sectors in the light of the role intergovernmental organisations have—especially the …

This chapter shows that apart from changes at the systemic and institutional levels,
successful reform implementation struggles with a gradual change in academic beliefs …

The structure of higher education systems has been under discussion since the turn of the
millennium, especially regarding the future of binary or dual systems; ie, systems constituted …