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Academic Middle Managers Shaping the Landscape Between Policy and Practice

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Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education

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Higher education institutions (HEIs) operate in a dynamic and competitive environment. They compete for subsidies from external funding and from the European framework programs; they attempt to win students from the national and international educational market, and they put a lot of effort into attracting and appointing the most talented researchers and teachers.

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    Ton Kallenberg

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    Rosalind M. O. Pritchard

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    Matthias Klumpp

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    Ulrich Teichler

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Kallenberg, T. (2015). Academic Middle Managers Shaping the Landscape Between Policy and Practice. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Klumpp, M., Teichler, U. (eds) Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-172-4_11

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