The University of Montreal's choice of the rational model of decision-making in managing budget cutbacks is explored and compared with other approaches, including the bureaucratic, garbage can, political, and collegial models. (MSE)

The pattern of management of Nigerian universities has remained unchanged despite major changes in the environment. While inadequate funding is perceived as the major factor in the present decline, those aspects of management which may have contributed to it are highlighted. (Author/MLW)

The government policy to distribute cutbacks proportionately among all universities through an enrollment-based funding formula and to resist calls for more selective intervention is discussed. The attempt at "rationalizing" the university system by making efficiency gains through rearranging relationships among universities is…

Events leading to Great Britain's substantial and differential cuts in student numbers and recurrent grants to universities are chronicled and related to the responses of nine universities. The universities' lack of preparation for the cuts and policy implications are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Management strategies used by higher education systems in three western industrialized societies (Quebec, France, and West Germany) and some of their consequences are described and some similarities and differences among them are examined, focusing on factors in the systems' environments. (Author/MSE)

A study of nine British universities' response to retrenchment in 1981-1984 found that while some institutions were successful in reducing staff and student numbers, reducing expenditures, and increasing other income, there were serious negative impacts affecting the institutions' ability to provide effective teaching and research and meet social…

The process of developing policy for the recent comprehensive retrenchment in the Dutch university system is analyzed from a theoretical perspective on decision making. Focus is on the rationalist view of collective decision making that links social communication and unanimous selection of optimal policy. (Author/MSE)

A discussion of recent changes in Dutch higher education provides an overview of the educational system and recent retrenchment and restructuring efforts, and formulates a framework for policy analysis that treats the system as a policy network. Basic processes influencing the outcomes of government policies promoting change are examined.…

Medium- and long-term strategies for allocating resources to avoid any reduction in quality and quantity of education and still meet financial criteria are discussed. Recommendations include: maximizing use of existing staff through reassignment within or between institutions, retraining, and staff development; and controlled appointments through…

The recommendations of a national committee on the organization, quality, and efficiency of Australian universities are reviewed. They cover accountability, flexibility, and efficiency of operation. Implications for the future of universities, especially small ones, are discussed. (MSE)

The complex relationships between knowledge development, economic development, and democratic life are examined in the context of recent developments in three industrially advanced societies (Canada, Great Britain, United States) with a long history of democracy. It is argued that economic development and epistemology must be subordinate to…

In the experience of the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, university management approaches emphasizing selective cutbacks generate considerable political conflict. The business perspective recommends decisiveness but offers little implementation help. Management of conflict, collegiality, and the conditions leading to…

A 1993 survey of Israeli university faculty by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching investigated faculty perceptions of change and crisis in the system in the context of expanded economic development in Israel. Focus is on perceptions of the relationship between teaching and research and the erosion of the faculty's status in…

A manpower planning model is used to examine the likely effects of slower university growth in the career prospects of staff in British universities. An approach is suggested in which senior levels would be allowed to vary over time to prevent staff promotion prospects from declining, and the cost of such a policy is estimated. (Author/LBH)

A discussion of recent declining enrollment in Polish higher education looks at the underlying demographic, economic, social, and policy factors causing changes in higher education in general, in specific institutions and faculties, and in women's participation. (MSE)