Structuring Mass Higher Education defines and highlights what makes an 'elite' university - something which institutions must strive for in order to gain their position as global players.

David Palfreyman is Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford.

Ted Tapper is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS), New College, University of Oxford, and the Center for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPAS).

Foreword Sheldon Rothblatt

Preface

1. Structuring Mass Higher Education: Interpreting the Process of Change Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman

Part I: Structural Change in Systems of Higher Education

2. U.S. Higher Education: Contemporary Challenges, Policy Options James Fairweather

3. Structural Changes in Higher Education: The Case of the United Kingdom Peter Scott

4. Nordic Higher Education in Transition Agnete Vabø and Per Olaf Aamodt

5. Latin American Higher Education: Hope in the Struggle? Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

6. Higher Education in India: The Challenge of Change N. Jayaram

7. The German 'Excellence Initiative' and its Role in Restructuring the National Higher Education Landscape Barbara M. Kehm and Peer Pasternack

8. South Africa's Elite Universities in the Oost-Apartheid Era, 1994-2007 Andre Kraak

9. The Legacy of Planning: Higher Education Development in China Kai-Ming Cheng, Yan Wang and Su-Yan Pan

10. Excellence in Dutch Higher Education: Handle with Care Frans Kaiser and Hans Vossensteyn

11. Polish Higher Education in Transition: Between Policy Making and Autonomy Ireneusz Bialecki and Malgorzata Dabrowa-Szefler

Part II: Elite Institutions in the Age of Mass Higher Education

12. What is an 'Elite' or 'Leading Global' University? David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper

13. Elite Higher Education in France: Tradition and Transition Cécile Deer

14. The Elite Public Universities in Australia Simon Marginson

15. (Post-) Mass Higher Education and Japanese Elite Universities Fumi Kitagawa

16. The Ivy League Roger L. Geiger

17. Oxbridge: Sustaining the International Reputation Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman

18. Conclusion: Converging Systems of Higher Education? Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman

Index