The model of state control

Cristina Sin and Orlanda Tavares

Chapter 4 in Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance, 2023, pp 59-70 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter describes how authorities always tried to control higher education institutions and academics. With the emergence of the modern university the model of state control was implemented. In this model the relationship between government and higher education institutions was heavily centralized, with the state controlling nearly all aspects of higher education (access, study contents, degree requirements, examinations, appointment of academic staff, etc.). This was the prevailing model in the European continental systems of higher education, and was built around the principle of legal homogeneity in order to ensure similarity of educational standards and programmes. As the state sector was the major employer of university graduates, legal homogeneity granted similarity of conditions and equality of opportunity for all individual citizens when applying for public employment. With the massification of higher education this model was progressively replaced with a model of state supervision.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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