Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education The Contempor

The volume offers state-of-the art contributions in the intersection of academic profession, research training and institutional governance. They reflect the profound interest of contemporary researchers in the questions of how the contemporary higher edu

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Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series Volume 6 Series Editors: Barbara M. Kehm, INCHER, Kassel University (Germany) Christine Musselin, CNRS and Science Po Paris (France) This new series provides overviews about state of the art research in the field of higher education studies. It documents a selection of papers from the annual conferences of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), the world organisation of researchers in the field of higher education. This object and problem related field of studies is by nature interdisciplinary and theoretically as well as methodologically informed by disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, history, philosophy, law and education. Each book includes an introduction by the editors explaining the thematic approach and criteria for selection as well as how the book can be used by its possible audience which might include graduate students, policy makers, researchers in the field, and practitioners in higher education administration, leadership and management. Please email queries to [email protected] International Editorial Advisory Board: Patrick Clancy, University College Dublin (Ireland) Creso Sà, University of Toronto (Canada) Pedro Teixeira, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, University of Porto (Portugal) Jussi Välimaa, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) Don F. Westerheijden, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education The Contemporary Issues in National and Comparative Perspective

Edited by Jelena Branković Ghent University, Belgium & Centre for Education Policy, Serbia Manja Klemenčić Harvard University, United States of America Predrag Lažetić Centre for Education Policy, Serbia & University of Bath, United Kingdom and Pavel Zgaga University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education: An Introduction Pavel Zgaga, Jelena Branković, Manja Klemenčić & Predrag Lažetić

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Part 1: Academic Profession Coarsely Ground: Developing the Czech System of Research Evaluation Mitchell Young

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Knowledge Society/Economy and Managerial Changes: New Challenges for Portuguese Academics Ru