1. In Pursuit of Academic Excellence -- 2. Introducing the Study -- 3. Picturing the Departments in Figures -- 4. Collaboration and Intellectual Community -- 5. Civicness and Social Cohesion -- 6. Authority and Patterns of Hierarchy -- 7. Stability, Institutional Change and the Road to Community -- 8. Creativity: an Essential By-product -- 9. Organising Innovative Research
Summary
The major aim of this book is to contribute to the ongoing European debate on the future relationship between government and universities. The volume refutes the widespread notion presently adopted by several European politicians and administrators that the most efficient way to meet the threats posed by mass university education to excellence in research and teaching is through government supervision and control, and the introduction of short-term incentives of a monetary nature. Instead this study points to the necessity for the operational units strongly to safeguard and strengthen their own capacities for self-evaluation and willingness to change, mainly through placing more emphasis on the question of academic leadership at the basic level. It also strongly argues the beneficial effects for general academic excellence of continuing the present European experiments with organizing graduate education in a way resembling the graduate school model
Notes
Bibliography: p177-183. _ Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index
