Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education: International Practice and Emerging Opportunities

Mergers and Alliances in Context. Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper .- Part I Mergers and Alliances from the Perspective of National. Higher Education Systems.- Mergers and Alliances in France: Incentives, Success Factors and Obstacles. Andrée Sursock .- Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles. Liviu Andreescu, Radu Georghiu, Alina Irimia, Adrian Curaj.- Collaboration Between Universities in Sweden. Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey.- Reorganising the Welsh University System. Philip Gummett.- Institutional Mergers in Ireland. Siobhán Harkin, Ellen Hazelkorn.- Institutional Mergers in Chinese Higher Education. Rui Yang.- Institutional Culture of Mergers and Alliances in South Africa. Martin Hall.- Institutional Combinations and the Creation of a New Higher Education Institutional Landscape in post-1994 South Africa. Saleem Badat.- Part II Mergers and Alliances at the Institutional. Level - Experiences and Lessons.- Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester - an update. Luke Georghiou.- The Experience with Creating University of Lorraine by Merging four Former Universities. Jean-Pierre Finance, Hervé Coilland, Pierre Mutzenhardt.- Strategic Aggregation of Universities in Spain: The Spanish Program International Campus of Excellence and the Experience of the Technical University of Madrid. Luis Delgado,
Gonzalo León.- The Process of Merging Romanian Universities: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University of Baia Mare. Radu Munteanu, Dan Calin Peter.- The Experience of University of Western Sydney, Australia. Rhonda Hawkins.- About the Editors.- About the Authors.