Excellence, Quality And The Diversity Of Higher Education Systems

  • Ivar Bleiklie
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Part of the Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series book series (CHER, volume 3)

Abstract

Excellence is one of the many usable concepts in the area of higher education that are precise enough to evoke a number of positive and sometimes negative emotions, yet vague enough to offer fertile ground for theoretical development as well as empirical research. This chapter argues that there has been a movement in the last thirty years during which the concepts of excellence and its close kin, quality, have changed meaning and content. While they used to refer to an individual quality, or a virtue if one prefers, expressed by the (outstanding) quality of an academic’s work, they have increasingly come to refer to two different organizational characteristics.

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High Education Labor Market High Education Institution High Education System Horizontal Diversity 
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  • Ivar Bleiklie
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  1. 1.Department of Administration and Organization TheoryUniversity of BergenBergen

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