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Part 1 The purpose and role of higher education: reinstating the idea ofhigher education, Ronald Barnett; response to Ronald Barnett, Ian McNay;university = diversity, pragmatics > dogmatics, Ian McNay; response to IanMcNay, Ronald Barnett; diversification and elitism in mass higher education,Chris Duke; rationalization and the modern university, Jennifer Jarman andRobert M. Blackburn; is small still beautiful? - in defence of collegialinstitutions of higher education, David Blake; learning skills and skills forlearning, Joyce Barlow. Part 2 The changing management culture of highereducation: the culture of political correctness, Roger Homan; the managemnetof change in higher education, Myra McCulloch; judging quality in highereducation - towards bureaucratic conformity, Clem Adelman; formal funding inhigher education - neither centralized nor decentralized, David A. Turner;principals, agents, producers and consumers in higher education, GarethWilliams; from policy to practice - staff development in higher education,the key to effective management of change, Bryan Cowan; travellors in astrange world - inequality and discrimination against women academics and itsnegative effects on higher education, Barbara Bagilhole; travellors in astrange world - a response to Barbara Bagilhole, Myra McCulloch; the role ofteacher unions in higher education, John Clay. Part 3 Internationalperspectives on higher education reform: educational reform in the UnitedStates and the former soviet Union - common errors in state-directed reformefforts, Hugh D. Hudson and Alan J. Hoffman; mobility or brain drain? - eyeon international faculty mobility in central and Eastern europe, Sylvia vande Bunt-Kokhuis; reforms in higher education - culture and control in theMiddle East, K.E. Shaw; crisis in the public universities in Kenya, Daniel N.Sifuna; revitalizing university education in Africa - addressing what is andwhat is not an issue from Kenya's perspective, Okwach Abagi; markets in asocialist system reform of higher education in China, Cheng Kai-ming;dilemmas facing African universities, Alison Girdwood; Teame Mebrahtu.