Higher Education Reform in Portugal: A Historical and Comparative Perspective of the New Legal Framework for Public Universities

Autor/inn/en	Amaral, Alberto; Tavares, Orlanda; Santos, Cristina
Titel	Higher Education Reform in Portugal: A Historical and Comparative Perspective of the New Legal Framework for Public Universities
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 26 (2013) 1, S.5-24 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2012.29
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational History; Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; Universities; Governance; Institutional Autonomy; Educational Legislation; Educational Policy; Collegiality; Policy Analysis; Educational Administration; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; University; Universität; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Institutionelle Autonomie; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Politics of education; Kollegialität; Politikfeldanalyse; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung
Abstract	The 1988 University Autonomy Act conferred Portuguese universities with a considerable degree of autonomy and designed a governance system based on collegiality. Strong participation of academic and non-academic staffs and students in decisions became the rule and democratic elections of all individual or collective governance bodies were the basis for legitimacy. More recently, a new reform has changed the legal framework. This reform was publicly presented as the implementation of New Public Management (NPM) in the Portuguese higher education system. In this paper, we analyse the new legal framework to understand how far it can be seen as an application of NPM and compare the Portuguese reform with those taking place in several European countries to determine how far there is convergence with the European modernisation agenda. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10