Hochschulentwicklung in Zeiten der Entgrenzung - Implikationen aktueller Makrotrends für die Hochschule als Lernort

Müller-Böling, Detlef; Buch, Florian

doi:10.3217/zfhe-1-01/05

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“…MOOCs in particular are viewed as a promising innovation, not because they would be as effective as traditional methods, but because their minimal marginal costs could provide large-scale savings through scaling. In Germany, elites have been more concerned about the international competitiveness of public research universities, demanding that universities be released from direct regulations and granted more flexibility to reach their goals (Müller-Böling 2000).…”

Section: Welfare States and Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizing Competition: Regulatory Welfare States in Higher Education

Schulze-Cleven¹

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Governments around the world have turned to higher education to sustain economic development and social welfare. This article uses the concept of the regulatory welfare state (RWS) to examine how state authorities in the United States and Germany have sought to spur structural changes in the education sector. I argue that policy-makers in both countries have pursued the goal of organizing competition among universities by combining fiscal and regulatory policies that strengthen universities’ self-reliance, rivalry, and decentralized decision-making. The analysis shows that understanding cross-national patterns of institutional transformation requires putting countries’ evolving regimes of state-university relations into historical perspective, and that states’ shifting governance strategies are important drivers of higher education’s contemporary reimagination. It also clarifies how regulatory approaches to welfare provision have fostered the re-composition of public infrastructures, raising pressing questions about the quality and scope of the welfare that regulatory approaches promote.

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Section: Welfare States and Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%