17 février 2013
Roles and functions of higher education councils
By Tracy Bailey. Since the mid-1980s there has been a growing trend in developed countries to establish semi-autonomous government agencies. Their creation has usually been linked to new public management and concomitant demands on governments for greater efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and accountability. The nature of such agencies is diverse, but they usually share some key characteristics, including being at arm’s length from their parent ministry, mandated to carry out public tasks within a specific sector, having a core staff of public servants, being largely financed by the state budget, and subject to administrative law procedures. Within the realm of higher education governance, many countries – developed and developing alike – have established higher (or tertiary) education councils or commissions, which fall under this umbrella of semi-autonomous government agency. Read more...
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