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Download full textClark, Burton R. – 1978
Coordination of higher education within national sets is discussed in this working paper. The structural bases of national coordination, the tasks of higher education and the prevailing structure of embedded power, are described. The national general patterns of coordinative organization that appear frequently among national systems of higher…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Comparative Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Peer reviewedClark, Burton R. – Change, 1978
Addressed are the issues of government/school relationship and the increasing centralization of postsecondary education. Drawing from the experiences of foreign countries, the value of institutional differentiation, and the need for planning and autonomous action for differentiation, coordination, and change are discussed. (JMD)
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Education, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedClark, Burton R. – Review of Higher Education, 1980
The importance of a comparison of national systems of higher education is argued. Examples of how cross-national comparison can be instructive are presented. The importance of studying academic power or authority comparatively is discussed and several guides for future research are offered. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Clark, Burton R.; And Others – 1977
As part of an inservice education program, papers are presented from a 1978 conference that addressed major issues of the 1980s in statewide coordination and governance in postsecondary education, along with excerpts from a 1977 conference on the relationship between higher education and government as seen from abroad. In the introduction to the…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Cooperation
Clark, Burton R. – 1982
Sets of values that affect higher education are discussed: social justice, competence, liberty, and loyalty. Social justice pertains to issues of equality and equity. Beyond access to education the interest in justice for students appears as a demand for uniform standards across a system. In addition, personnel and whole enterprises steadily…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Access to Education, Administrative Organization, College Role
Clark, Burton R. – 1977
Approaches to the organization and administration of higher education drawn from other countries are presented. In some countries, higher education is coordinated by a central bureaucracy in which there is much nationalization of the curriculum, a nationalized degree structure, and a nationalized system of admissions. This approach is contrasted…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bureaucracy, Centralization, College Role
Clark, Burton R. – 1983
Basic elements of the higher education system are considered, along with variations across nations (the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, Italy, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Yugoslavia, Mexico, and Thailand). Three basic elements of the organization of higher education system are identified:…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Comparative Education, Educational Change
