The changing public-private mix in higher education: Analysing Portugal's apparent exceptionalism

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Teixeira, PN (Author) FEP

Book

Title: Higher education in Portugal 1974-2009: A nation, a generation

Pages: 307-328

ISBN: 9789400721357; 940072134X; 9789400721340

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-2135-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Indexing

Scopus - 18 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-BKG

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2135-7-13

Abstract (EN): In recent decades, we have observed a growing privateness in higher education around the world. This chapter analyses one of the main dimensions in that trend towards privatisation, namely the development of a strong private sector in the Portuguese setting. The chapter analyses how the private sector came to play a major role in Portuguese higher education. In order to understand these developments better, the Portuguese experience will be discussed against the broader international background of increasing marketisation and privatisation in higher education and the major stylised facts associated with recent waves of privatisation. The chapter concludes by discussing how far Portuguese higher education has followed a peculiar path in this respect and/or shares with other systems a similar pattern of development.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific