276 pages
228 x 145mm
ISBN-10: 0 948080 02 7
ISBN-13: 978 0 948080 02 9

This work analyses the original aims, results and the factors explaining the achievements of seven higher education reforms in different European countries. I ts authors interpret the findings of a series of case studies and examine the British Open University, the Swedish 25/4 Admission Scheme, the Norwegian Regional Colleges and the German 'Comprehensive University.

The book uses the technique of implementation analysis and provides an illuminating comparison, by Burton Clark, of contemporary higher education policy implementation in Europe and the USA.

"Cerych and Sabatier have given us the most useful analysis now available, and likely to be so for a long time, of important systems of higher education undergoing change and attempted change in a unique and crucial period of their existence!' - Clark Kerr