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Knowledge Society/Economy and Managerial Changes

New Challenges for Portuguese Academics

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Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education

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In Portugal, reforms in higher education (HE) have been mainly conducted under the influence of a new political rationality. The dominant global trace of this rationality is the extension of economic and managerial logics to the set of HE activities, as well as the way of managing them and the professionals involved in their achievement.

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Santiago, R., Carvalho, T., Ferreira, A. (2014). Knowledge Society/Economy and Managerial Changes. In: Branković, J., Klemenčić, M., Lažetić, P., Zgaga, P. (eds) Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-581-6_3

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