Global influences and local responses: The restructuring of the University of Botswana, 1990-2000

Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 457-482

  Tabulawa, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Collegiality; Globalization; Horizontal profile; Managerialism; Monocephalic; Neo liberalism; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249721503     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-005-4832-7     Document Type: Review

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