Description: With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. This volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from a theoretical and empirical perspective in a comparative setting.
Review Quotes: Martin Hayden, Southern Cross University
This book makes an important contribution to the literature on policy studies in higher education because of the quality of the contributions, the status of the contributors and the importance of the topics addressed. The book provides and extraordinarily rich insight into the remarkable diversity across, and within, national higher education systems and it presents a great deal of evidence that, over time, these systems can shift one way and then the other in terms of the amount of diversity they exhibit. I regard the book as being valuable for anyone with an interest in higher education systems generally and as an essential text for scholars exploring the dynamics of structural change within, and across, national higher education systems.
Higher Education Research & Development