ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Top of pageAims and scope of journal
Higher Education Policy is an international journal for advancing scholarly understanding of the policy process applied to higher education through the publication of original analyses, both theoretical and practice-based, the focus of which may range from case studies of developments in individual institutions to policy making at systems and at national level.
Higher Education Policy has two distinguishing features:
- It encourages contributions that make explicit comparison between systems of higher education
- It is theme based, involving a common focus or combining articles which individually contribute to an overall topic.
Through this journal the International Association of Universities (IAU) wishes to strengthen the exchange between scholarship and issues of practical administrative concern within the perspective of the disciplines that contribute to the study of this field - anthropology, history, economics, public administration, political science, government, law, sociology, philosophy, psychology, policy analysis and the sociology of organisations. The editorial board will give every encouragement to original contributions, whether theoretical, conceptual or empirical in nature, which involve explicit inter-system and cross-national comparisons. Articles devoted to less reported systems of higher education and their evolution, are particularly welcome.
The major criteria retained in the process of review and selection are the significance of the submission to decision-making and policy development in higher education as well as its intrinsic quality. Since the study of policy in higher education draws upon a broad range of disciplines, a cross-disciplinary methodology will have equal consideration.
"From the perspective of someone who is required to keep up to date in the field, Higher Education Policy is invaluable in providing comparative and independent perspectives on important themes from different sources and world views. The perspectives are always scholarly and thought-provoking and I highly recommend it to leaders and independent scholars alike."
Brenda Gourley, Vice Chancellor, British Open University
Milton Keynes, UK
"Higher education and research are key components in development. Yet, developing countries and, in particular, the least advantaged ones, have great difficulties in finding appropriate ways of organising adequate structures to fulfill these tasks. Qualified policy advice is needed for decisions that involve assigning scarce resources in a system which provides coverage and quality. The provision of International education, virtual, franchised or in other forms, is growing. It presents another dilemma - balancing short term needs with the long term ambition to build funtioning systems. Higher Education Policy, with its excellent overviews and in-depth articles, contributes to an empirical and analytical basis that such situations both need and call for."
Berit Olsson, Assistant Director General, Swedish Agency for International Development Co-operation, Sida
Director, Department for Research Co-operation, SAREC
Abstracted/indexed in
- LABI.INFORM from ProQuest
- CSA Sociological Abstracts
- Higher Education Digest
- International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ)
- International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR)
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- Science Direct Navigator Database
- SCOPUS
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
ISSN and eISSN
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Higher Education Policy is 0952-8733 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1740-3863.
Top of pageEditors
Editor
Jeroen Huisman, International Centre for Higher Education Management, University of Bath, UK
Editorial Advisory Board
Agneta Bladh, University College of Kalmar, Sweden
David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Ellen Hazelkorn, Dublin Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland
Glen Jones, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Rollin Kent, Universidad Autónoma De Puebla, Mexico
Maria Jose Lemaitre, Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo (CINDA), Chile
Daniel Levy, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Louis Levy-Garboua, Université Paris I, France
Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ka Ho Mok, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK
José-Ginés Mora, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Guy Neave, Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, The Nethelands
Helena Sebkova, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Prague, Czech Republic
Mala Singh, Council on Higher Education, South Africa
Morshidi Sirat, National Higher Education Research Institute, Malaysia
Ulrich Teichler, INCHER, Universität Kassel,Germany
Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Frans A. van Vught, University of Twente, The Netherlands
