Marketization of Higher Education

Karlsson, Tom,1979Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Förvaltningshögskolan,School of Public Administration (author)

Higher education is usually conceptualized as being autonomous from market and state interventions. Academic scholars have been free to organize and realize educational content on their own terms. One reason for this lies in the academic freedom, which safeguards the pursuit of knowledge and a right to educate students on such knowledge. Increasingly, higher education has been subjected to global trends of internationalization. This implies the construction of a global agenda for facilitating student and staff mobility in order to increase student employability across borders and instigate a comparability of different degrees. An effect of internationalization is that competition has been introduced in higher education, leading to changing pedagogical practices and understandings of higher education is. Drawing from economic theory, it can be argued that internationalization transforms higher education from a public to a private good, making it susceptible to market powers. This process can be labeled marketization, meaning that higher education becomes a service as any other.

Karlsson, Susanna,1976Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för svenska språket,Department of Swedish(Swepub:gu)xkarsu (author)
Göteborgs universitetFörvaltningshögskolan (creator_code:org_t)

In:Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and GovernanceCham : Springer9783319318165

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