Description:
The book compiles a collection of essays written by Henry Wasser in recent years. Both the American and the European reader will be made aware of the variety of notions held regarding the diversity of higher education. The author clearly favours efforts to keep differences of quality and function within higher education in bound thus ensuring chances for the socially and educationally disadvantaged students to share common experiences with the more successful ones and facilitating a cross-fertilization of teaching and research across all sectors and levels of higher education. Content: Teaching and Research. Tension and Balance. - Redefining Autonomy of Universities. - Changes in the European University. From traditional ot Entrepreneurial. - Changing Relations Between University and State. Sweden and U.S.A. - a comparision. - Recent Trends in American Higher Education. - Relation of Short-Cycle Higher Education to Universities. Separate, Merged, System or Branch? - Short-Cycle Higher Education. A Comparative View. - Central European Higher Education. Problems and Perspectives. - The University. Does it Have a Future? (HoF/text adopted)