Ben Jongbloed

TL;DR: In this article, a stakeholder analysis is put forward as a tool to assist universities in classifying stakeholders and determining stakeholder salience, and an ambitious research agenda for tackling the emerging issues of governance, stakeholder management and higher education's interaction with society.

TL;DR: The authors argue that universities' responsiveness to stakeholders does not evolve simply and functionally but in response to the networks of relationships in which they are situated, which has important implications for how stakeholder research is used in higher education research, and for the design and implementation of policies to improve universities' societal contributions.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of government policies for funding higher education in 11 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is presented, in particular the mechanisms for funding the university sector and the extent to which the grants to universities are oriented on performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a new and systematic characterization of 488 universities, from 11 European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and UK, using micro indicators built on the integrated Aquameth database.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study on dropout and completion in higher education in Europe demonstrates that national governments and higher education institutions use three different study success objectives: completion, time-to-degree and retention.