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Nikos Macheridis . Photo

Nikos Macheridis

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Nikos Macheridis . Photo

Tracing accountability in higher education

Author

  • Nikos Macheridis
  • Alexander Paulsson

Summary, in English

Drawing upon earlier studies of reforms and institutional changes in higher education, the purpose of this paper is to trace how the understanding of accountability has changed over the past twenty years and how it is understood to have impacted on higher education institutions. We do so by reviewing more than 350 papers and by asking three questions: Who answers to whom? For what are they answering? And how to assess those accountability arrangements? With these three questions as guides, our results indicate that higher education institutions have been undergoing processes of what we term accountabilization. These results contribute to the scholarship on higher education governance by conceptualizing the processes of accountabilization.

Department/s

  • Strategy
  • Organizational Studies

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

78-97

Publication/Series

Research in Education

Volume

110

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Educational Sciences
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Accountability
  • accountabilization
  • changes
  • governance
  • higher education

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0034-5237