Policy Changes, Marketization Trends, and Spatial Dispersion in European Higher Education: Comparing Public and Private Sectors.

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Vera, Biscaia, Ricardo, Cardoso, Margarida Fonseca
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1438
• topic: Higher education; Regulation; Competition; Markets; Diversification; Public policy

Decades of expansion in European higher education have led to the need to cater to an increasingly diverse student population in a more economical and efficient way. The realities of mass higher education have resulted in major transformations, with visible changes in the modes and instruments of regulation and a greater emphasis on market forces and institutional competition. In this article we reflect about the relevance of those changes from a regional point of view, especially by looking at the public–private mix of higher education and the way those regulatory changes may have influenced patterns of spatial and programmatic diversification across a sample of European countries.