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Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2013
In contrast with that basic understanding of university autonomy, in most continental European countries, such as France, and also in Japan, the government has tightly controlled universities, in terms of both their organization and activities. In these countries, the concept of "governance" is often lacking, as institutions were not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Governance, Universities
Premfors, Rune – 1981
The evolving patterns of authority in the higher education systems of countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are reviewed. Attention is directed to the major characteristics of the traditional patterns of authority, pressures for changed experiences during the transformation from elite to…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Education, Coordination, Decision Making