Performance in Higher Education Institutions and Its Variations in Nordic Policy

摘要: The need for greater efficiency, productivity and quality in the higher education sector has triggered increased governmental interest towards different mechanisms of accountability, especially evaluation performance measurement. This developed over a relatively long period time, but it now reached its culmination point many ways. For instance, advances citation tracking, data collection databases professionalisation evaluative practices methods have opened new avenues verifying accountability. chapter offers definitions key concepts used throughout book, as follows: evaluation, measurement management. Each section is followed by short contextualisation concept Denmark, Finland, Norway Sweden. ends with discussion about policy convergence between Nordic countries reasons it.