Unit 1
Theoretical foundations
Becker, G.S: Investment in Human Capital: Effects on Earnings" in Ashenfelter O. & Lalonde R.J, eds., The Economics of Training, 1980. London, Elgar. pp. 3-32 . http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3733.pdf.
Arrow, K.J: Higher Education as a Filter, 1973. Journal of Public Economics, vol 2 no 3. pp. 193-216. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V76-45DMXY0-17-1&_cdi=5834&_user=674998&_pii=0047272773900133&_origin=search&_coverDate=07%2F31%2F1973&_sk=999979996&view=c&wchp=dGLzVtb-zSkWA&md5=97095b036307d9ebcf87a5eb2c78b325&ie=/sdarticle.pdf.
Weiss, A: Capital vs Signalling Explanations Of Wages, 1995. Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol 9 no 4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2138394.pdf?acceptTC=true.
Human capital approach and returns to Education
Allen, J: Effects of a country’s economic and social context on the rates of return to education: A global meta-analysis, Working Paper, 2001. Stanford University.
Blöndal S., S. Field and N. Girouard: Investment In Human Capital Through Post-Compulsory Education and Training: Selected Efficiency and Equity Aspects, 2002. OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 333 . http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/fulltext/5lgsjhvj7zg0.pdf?expires=1305116029&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=8B3E8461F072BF2A485EB23BB793E208.
Psacharopoulos, G & Patrinos, H. A: Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update, 2002. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2881. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1099079877269/547664-1099079934475/547667-1135281504040/Returns_Investment_Edu.pdf.
Fox, M: it a Good Investment to Attend an Elite Private College?, 1993. Economics of Education Review, Vol 12 no 2. pp. 137-151. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VB9-45BC475-69-1&_cdi=5921&_user=674998&_pii=027277579390025C&_origin=browse&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F1993&_sk=999879997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkzS&md5=3aa114a29c311ebbc9ccaa103756685b&ie=/sdarticle.pdf.
Rumberger, R. W., & Thomas, S. L: The Economic Returns to College Major, Quality and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis of Recent Graduates, 1993. Economics of Education Review Vol 12 no 1. pp. 1-19. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VB9-45F5XR7-51-1&_cdi=5921&_user=674998&_pii=027277579390040N&_origin=browse&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F1993&_sk=999879998&view=c&wchp=dGLzVtb-zSkzV&md5=a0eaf23922295391a89ad8293c3b3b6b&ie=/sdarticle.pdf.
Unit 2
Introduction: the changing environment: globalisation and the knowledge economy
Castells, M: The Rise of the Network Society, Volume I of The Information Age: Economy, society and culture, 2000. Blackwell, Oxford . pp. 67-147.
Held, D. & A. McGrew : The Global Transformations Reader. An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, 2000. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp1-47.
Jamil Salmi: Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education, 2002. World Bank. pp. 7-23. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/TERTIARYEDUCATION/Resources/Documents/Constructing-Knowledge-Societies/ConstructingKnowledgeSocieties.pdf.
Beerkens, E: Globalisation and Higher Education. Chapter 2 in: Global Opportunities and Institutional Embeddedness; Higher Education Consortia in Europe and Southeast Asia, 2004. Enschede: CHEPS. pp 7-28. http://www.beerkens.info/files/phd.pdf.
Globalisation and internationalisation in higher education
Gornitzka, Å., Gulbrandsen, M., and Langfeldt, L: . Crossing the Borders. In: Å. Gornitzka and L. Langfeld (eds) Borderless KnowledgeUnderstanding the “New”Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education in Norway, 2010. Springer. pp. 171-184.
European Governance, Bologna and Lisbon
Maassen, P, and J. P. Olsen : European Debates on the Knowledge Institution: The Modernization of the University at the European Level, 2006. Arena. http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-publications/workingpapers/working-papers2006/wp06_17.pdf.
Corbett, Anne : Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurs: towards a new history of higher education in the European Community, 2003. European Journal of Education vol 38 no 3. pp. 315-330. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-3435.00150/pdf.
Olsen, J.P: The many faces of Europeanization, 2002. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 40 no 5. pp. 921-952. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5965.00403/pdf.
Gornitzka, Åse : The Lisbon Process: A Supranational Policy Perspective. Institutionalizing the Open Method of Coordination. In: P. Maassen and JP Olsen (eds). University Dynamics and European Integration, 2007. Springer. pp. 155-178. http://www.springerlink.com/content/g318g3w785k548j5/fulltext.pdf.
Neave, Guy and Peter Maassen : ) The Bologna Process: An Intergovernmental Policy Perspective. In: P. Maassen and JP Olsen (eds). University Dynamics and European Integration, 2007. Springer. pp. 135-153. http://www.springerlink.com/content/g41r15215r89237k/fulltext.pdf.
Institutional Responses: Strategies for Cooperation and Competition
Henry Etzkowitz, Andrew Webster, Christiane Gebhardt, Branca Regina Cantisano Terra : The future of the university and the university of the future: evolution of ivory tower to entrepreneurial paradigm, 2000. Research Policy vol 29 no 2. pp. 313-330. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V77-3YTBY18-J-1&_cdi=5835&_user=674998&_pii=S0048733399000694&_origin=gateway&_coverDate=02%2F29%2F2000&_sk=999709997&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkWb&md5=54fb9c14c5123e9047f6ce316c2d2815&ie=/sdarticle.pdf.
Maassen, P., A. Vabø and B. Stensaker : Translation of Globalisation and Regionalisation in the Nordic Cooperation in Higher Education. In: Å. Gornitzka and L. Langfeld (eds) Borderless Knowledge Understanding the “New” Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education in Norway, 2008. Springer. pp. 125-140.
The Developing Knowledge Society in a Global Context
Cloete, N. et al: Multilateral and bilateral efforts to contribute to higher education in Africa, 2005. Cape Town: CHET. pp. 1-30.
AnnaLee Saxenian : From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China, 2005. Studies in Comparative International Development, Summer 2005, Vol. 40, No. 2. pp. 35-61. http://www.springerlink.com/content/a3wplr37wg603hh6/fulltext.pdf.
Devesh Kapur and John McHale: The Global Migration of Talent: What Does it Mean for Developing Countries?, 2005. CGD Brief . pp. 1-15. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/4473/.
International trade and markets in higher education
Garrett, R. & L. Verbik : Transnational higher education: major markets and emerging trends. In: Mapping borderless higher education: policy, markets and competition, 2004. The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. pp. 319-371.
Maassen, Peter : The Moderisation of European Higher Education: National Policy Dynamics. In: Alberto Amaral et al (eds) Higher Education Dynamics: From Governance to Identity, 2008. Spring. pp. 95-112. http://www.springerlink.com/content/n66836vr38637518/fulltext.pdf.
Barrow, C. W. et al : Chapter 1. Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America, 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers . pp. 1-22.
Recommended reading
Beck, U: What is globalization? , 2000. Cambridge, MA: Polity.
Castells, Manuel and Pekko Himanen : The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, 2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Currie, J., R. DeAngelis, et al: Globalizing practices and university responses : European and Anglo-American differences, 2003. Westport, Connectitut; London, praeger.
Corbett, Anne : Universities and the Europe of Knowledge Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Union Higher Education 1955-2005, 2005. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Drori, G. S., Meyer, J. W., Ramirez, F. O., & Schofer, E: Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization, 2003. Stanford: Stanford University Press.. Chapter 1 and 2.
European Commission: Mobilising the brainpower of Europe: enabling universities to make their full contribution to the Lisbon Strategy, 2005. European Commission. http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/2010/doc/comuniv2005_en.pdf.
Progress towards the Lisbon objectives in education and training, 2005. European Commission. http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/2010/doc/progress06/report_en.pdf.
Guillen, M.F: Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature, 2001. Annual Review of Sociology, No. 27. pp. 235-260. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.235.
Habermas, J: The European nation-state: Its achievements and its limits. On the past and future of sovereignty and citizenship. In G. Balakrishnan (Ed.), Mapping the nation, 1996. London: Verso.
Mapping the nation: Globalisation and the post-colonial world: The new political economy of development, 1998. London: Macmillan.
Kwiek, M: The Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny. The Bologna Process from a Central European Perspective. In: Voldemar Tomusk (ed.), The Bologna Process - Voices from the Peripheries, 2004. Kluwer. http://www.policy.hu/kwiek/KwiekBolognaKluwer.pdf.
Marginson, Simon and Erlenawati Sawir : University Leaders’ Strategies in the Global Environment: A Comparative Study of Universitas Indonesia and the Australian National University, 2006. Higher Education, vol 52 no 2. pp. 343-373. http://www.springerlink.com/content/w66261q151848173/.
Maassen, P. & N. Cloete : Global Reform Trends in Higher Education. In: Cloete et al (edit). Transformation in Higher Education. Global Pressures and Local Realities in South Africa, 2002. CHET. pp. 13-32. http://chet.org.za/webfm_send/440.
Mazzarol, T & G.N. Soutar : The global market for higher education. Sustainable competitive strategies for the new millennium, 2001. Edward Elgar Publishers.
Neave, G: The Bologna Declaration: Some of the Historic Dilemmas Posed by the Reconstruction of the Community in Europe's Systems of Higher Education, 2003. Educational Policy, Vol. 17 No.1. pp. 141-164. http://epx.sagepub.com/content/17/1/141.full.pdf+html.
Nowotny, H. Peter Scott, and Michael Gibbons: Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty, 2001. London: Polity Press. pp. 1-21, 66-96.
OECD: Internationalisation and trade in higher education – Opportunities and Challenges, 2004. OECD. Chapters 5-6.
Olson, J.P: The institutional dynamics of the (European) Universities, 2005. ARENA Working Paper. http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-publications/workingpapers/working-papers2005/wp05_15.pdf.
Rip, Arie : Strategic Research, Post-modern Universities and Research Training, 2004. Higher Education Policy, vol 17 no 2. pp. 153-166.
Schofer, Evan; John W. Meyer : The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, 2005. American Sociological Review vol 70 no 6. pp. 898-920. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/70/6/898.full.pdf+html.
Slaughter, S. and L.L. Leslie : Academic Science and Technology in the Global Marketplace. In: Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University. Baltimore, 1997. Johns Hopkins University Press. .
Stehr, Nico: Knowledge Societies, 1994. London: Sage. Chapter 1.
Stiglitz, J. E: Globalization and its discontents, 2002. New York: Norton & Co. pp. 3-23.
Castells, M.: Materials for an exploratory theory of the, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00005.x/pdf.
Beck, U: The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology of the, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. pp. 79-105. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00079.x/pdf.
Urry, J: Mobile sociology, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. 185-203. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00185.x/pdf.
Wallerstein: From sociology to historical social science: prospects and obstacles, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. pp. 25-35. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00025.x/pdf.
Sassen, S: New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. pp. 143-159. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00143.x/pdf.
Featherstone: Archiving Cultures, 2000. Special Issue of British Journal of Sociology, vol 51 no 1. pp. 161-184. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00161.x/pdf.
Vairra, Massimiliano : Globalization and higher education organizational change: a framework for analysis, 2004. Higher Education, vol 48 no. 4. pp. 483-510. http://www.springerlink.com/content/x4wg74h0m4430835/fulltext.pdf.
Vught, Frans van : A supranational European university policy? An analysis of the European Union’s higher education and research policies, 2006. working paper. http://www.utwente.nl/mb/cheps/summer_school/Literature/Van%20Vught%20EU%202.pdf.
Vught, van F. A, M.C. van der Wende & D.F. Westerheijden : Globalisation and Internationalisation. Policy Agendas Compared. In: Higher Education in a Globalizing World. International Trends and Mutual Observations. J. Enders & O. Fulton (eds.) , 2002. Dordrecht: Kluwer. pp. 103-121.
Wende, M.C. van der : Internationalisation Policies: About New Trends and Contrasting Paradigms, 2001. Higher Education Policy, Vol. 14, Issue 3. pp. 249-259.
Wende, M.C. van der & R. Middlehurst : Cross-border post-secondary education: Regional case study on Europe. In: Internationalisation and trade in higher education – Opportunities and Challenges, 2004. Paris: OECD/CERI. pp. 87-137.