Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jan Currie -- Globalization and education policy in Australia / Janice Dudley -- National higher education policies in a global economy / Sheila Slaughter -- The changing political economy : the private and public lives of Canadian universities / Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson -- The service university in service societies : the Norwegian experience / Arild Tjeldvoll -- The last decade of higher education reform in Australia and France : different constraints, differing choices in higher education politics and policies / Richard Deangelis -- Micro-economic reform through managerialism in American and Australian universities / Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich -- Don't count your blessings : the social accomplishments of performance indicators / Claire Polster and Janice Newson -- Changing accountability and autonomy at the "coalface" of academic work in Australia / Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie -- The entrepreneurial university : macro and micro perspectives from the United States / Edward H. Berman -- Globalization and distance education mega-institutions : mega-ambivalence! / Mick Campion and David Freeman -- Globalization, the OECD and the Australian higher education / Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi -- Reshaping the educational agendas of Mexican universities : the impact of NAFTA / Heriberta Castan��?�os-Lomnitz, Axel Didriksson, and Janice Newson -- Conclusion : repositioning the local through alternative responses to globalization / Janice Newson.