Acknowledgements

Abstract

List of contributors

Foreword: Contemporary challenges in the design of education provision.

Introduction: The strategic management of masters programmes – towards the establishment of a research field.


Part1: Rethinking the Strategic Management of Masters Programmes in European Universities

1. Strategic purposes and stakeholders.

2. Strategic political economies.

3. Strategic organizational models.

4. Strategic change approaches.


Part2: On Institutional Diversity and Convergence at the Master Level

5. Defining institutional diversity beyond the social inclusion debate.

6. Voices from the universities.

7. Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

8. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

9. Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain.

10. Technical Superior Institute, Portugal.

11. Technical University of Denmark.

12. Technical University of Munich, Germany.

13. Exploratory and critical perspectives across Europe.

14. Objectifying the Diversity of Master's Students: A Pedagogical Tool.

15. Towards Third Cultures in European Higher Education: Examining questions of language and internationalisation in European Master’s programmes.

16. Still Lost in Translation: 35 years of master’s programmes in Estonian higher education.

17. A critical reflection on the evolution of the masters degree in Spatial Planning and Urban Design at the University of Porto.

18. The Master of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool.

19. Synthesis and concluding thoughts.

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