Professor of Comparative Higher Education Policy Studies
E-mail: [email protected];
Research interests and professional background
Guy Neave has been Director of Research for the International Association of Universities (IAU) in Paris
since 1990, and is one of the world's foremost scholars and writers in the field of higher education policy
studies. He joined CHEPS on a part-time basis in 1997.
Guy Neave's initial academic career was as an historian; he obtained his doctorate in French Political
History. He was awarded a Social Science Research Council Conversion Fellowship at the School of
Education, University of Leicester, from 1969 - 1972, and subsequently held academic posts in the field of
education at the universities of Edinburgh and Paris IX Dauphine, before being appointed Professor of
Comparative Education at the University of London's Institute of Education in 1986. Guy has also spent
periods as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Amsterdam, Göteborg, the University of California at
Berkeley, and the City University of New York. He has had considerable experience as a higher
education consultant, most notably for the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European
Communities, the World Bank and as an adviser to numerous governments, foundations and
organisations.
He has played a leading role in scholarly organisations in the field, including as Vice President of the
Comparative Education Society in Europe, Vice President of the Society for Research into Higher
Education (SRHE), and as one of the three founder members of the Consortium for Higher Education
Researchers (CHER). ). In 1999 he became member of the prestigious National Academy of Education of
the USA. His impact as an editor has been equally impressive - amongst the highlights are serving for a
decade as joint editor of the European Journal of Education, editor of Higher Education Policy since 1988,
Joint Editor-in-Chief (with Burton R. Clark) of the Encyclopaedia of Higher Education (Pergamon Press),
and general series editor of "Issues in Higher Education" (Elsevier Science).
Guy Neave's current research interests are in the areas of Higher Education Policy in Europe and
European Integration.
Recent Publications
Guy Neave has published somewhere over 150 articles in scientific journals, written more than 60
chapters in multi-authored books, (co-) authored 15 books and (co-) edited a similar number, produced
more than 40 consultant and technical reports and given over 100 key-note and paper presentations at
conferences.
Some important publications include:
I.
Books:
With Thorsten Nybom & Kjell Blückert [Eds] The European Research University: an historical
parenthesis? New York, 2006, Palgrave Academic Publications, pp. 181.
[editor] Knowledge, Authority and Dissent: critical perspectives on research into higher education
and the Knowledge Society, Paris, 2006, UNESCO.
With Albert Amaral, Christine Musselin, Peter Maassen (Eds), European Integration and the
Governance of Higher Education and Research, Dordrecht/Heidelberg, 2009, Springer, 299pp.
With Alberto Amaral (Eds) Higher Education in Portugal A Nation, a Generation 1974 - 2009,
Dordrecht/Heidelberg, 2011, Springer Verlag) 430pp.
II. REPORTS TO GOVERNMENTS/ GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.
with the International Review Panel “Centres of Excellence in Higher Education 2008” Rapport 2008;
38R, Stockholm, 2008, Hogskolverket, (mimeo) 24pp.
with the OECD Review Team OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education: Iceland,
Paris, 2008, 85 pp + Annexes.
Report of the International Experts‟ review “Organizing for the Linneus Programme: Report presented
to the Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, 2008, Vetenskapsradet (mimeo) 95 pp.
With David Dill, Mary Henkel and Don Westerheijden, First Report of the Scientific Council to A3ES,
Lisbon, December 2009, (mimeo) 10pp.
With David Dill, Mary Henkel, Bjorn Stensaker and Don Westerheijden Second Report of the Scientific
Council to A3ES, Lisbon, March 2011 (mimeo) 10pp.
III CONTRIBUTIONS TO MULTI AUTHOR COLLECTIONS.
“Mass Higher Education and the Research University: a post-modern revival of Ockham‟s Razor”, in
Zehev Tadmar (Ed) „Transition to Mass Higher Education Systems: international comparisons and
perspectives‟, Haifa (Israel) 2006, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, The S. Neaman Press,
pp. 241- 264.
“Social dimension och social sammanhallning i Bolognaprocessen: Eller, att forlika Adam Smith med
Thomas Hobbes” in Kjell Blückert & Eva Österberg [Eds] Gränslöst i Sverige och i världen, Stockholm,
2006, Natur och Kultur., pp. 382 -403.
With Peter Maassen “The Bologna Process: an intergovernmental perspective” in Peter Maassen and
Johan P. Olsen (Eds) European Integration and University Dynamics Dordrecht, 2007, Kluwer , pp.
135 – 154.
“The Long Quest for Legitimacy; an extended Gaze from Europe‟s Western Parts” in Dan Levy and
Snejana Slancheva [Eds] Private Higher Education in East and Central Europe: the Quest for
Legitimacy, New York, 2007, Palgrave Academic Publishers, pp. 27 – 54.
“Global Trends in Higher Education: Globalisation, Internationalisation and Policy - an historical critique,”
in Barbara Kehm (ed) Looking Back to look Forward: Analyses of Higher Education after the Turn
of the Millennium, INCHER Werkstatbericht No. 67, Kassel (Germany) 2007, International Centre for
Higher Education Research, pp.
“From Guardian to Overseer; Trends in Institutional Autonomy, Governance and Leadership” in Alberto
Amaral (Ed) Reforma do Ensino Superior: Quatro Temas em Debate Lisboa, Conselho Nacional de
Educação, 2008, Conselho Nacional de Educação.
“Le Culture del Mondo Academico”, in Isabella Ceccarini & Pier Giovanni Palla (Eds) Perché
l‟Università: riflessioni sull‟ética del sapare, Citta del Castello, 2007, Edimond,
pp.241 - 245.
“On Scholarly Communities, Lieder and Systems; Ulrich Teichler and their structural dynamics” in Barbara
Kehm (ed) Hochschule im Wandel; die Universität als Forschungsgegenstand, Frankfurth/Main,
2008 Campus Verlag pp. 267 – 280.
“The Bologna Process as Alpha or Omega Or, On Interpreting History and Context as Inputs to
Bologna, Prague, Berlin and Beyond”, in Albert Amaral, Peter Maassen, Guy Neave, Musselin, Christine
and Maassen Peter (Eds) European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and
Research, , Heidelberg/ London/ New York, 2009, Springer Verlag, pp.17 – 58.
With Alberto Amaral “On Bologna, Weasels and Creeping Competence” in Albert Amaral, Peter
Maassen, Guy Neave, Musselin, Christine and Maassen Peter (Eds) European Integration and the
Governance of Higher Education and Research, Heidelberg/ London/ New York, 2009, Springer
Verlag, pp.281 – 300.
“Institutional Autonomy 2010 – 2020. A Tale of Elan – two steps back to make one very large leap
forward”, in Jeroen Huisman, Bjorn Stensaker and Barbara M. Kehm (Eds) The European Higher
Education Area: Perspectives on a Moving Target, Rotterdam, 2009 Sense Publishers, pp. 3 – 22.
“The Academic Estate revisited; Reflections on Academia‟s rapid progress from the Capitoline Hill to the
Tarpeian Rock”, in Jürgen Enders and Egbert de Weert (Eds) The Changing Face of Academic Life:
analytical and comparative perspectives, Basingstoke/ New York, 2009, Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 15 –
35.
“Now you see it, now you don‟t: privatization as the Will o‟ the Wisp in the Higher Education Policies of
Western Europe” in Nadav Liron and Charlotte Diamant (Eds) Privatization in Higher Education:
Proceedings of the International Conference, The Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion – Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2009, The S. Neaman Press CD ROM pp. 53 – 87 on
http://www.neaman.org.il/Neaman/publications/publication_item.asp?fid=899&parent_fid=489&iid=7765.
"On Steering Policy, Strategic Positioning, the Rise of Markets and the Giving of Gifts" in Nadav Liron and
Charlotte Diamant (Eds) Privatization in Higher Education: Proceedings of the International
Conference, The Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel,
2009, The S. Neaman Press CD ROM pp.195 - 204 on
http://www.neaman.org.il/Neaman/publications/publication_item.asp?fid=899&parent_fid=489&iid=7765
With Alberto Amaral ”The OECD and its Influence in Higher Education: a critical revision” in Roberta
Mallee Bassett and Alma Maldonaldo-Maldonaldo (Eds) International organizations and higher
education policy: thinking globally, acting locally? London, 2009, Routledge, pp. 82 – 99.
“The Evaluative State as policy in transition: an historical and an anatomical Study” in Robert Cowen and
Andreas M. Kazamias (Eds) The International Handbook of
Comparative Education, Heidelberg, London, New York, 2009, Springer, pp. 551 – 568.
“Introduction to „Federalism in Higher Education‟ in Michael Burrage (ed) Martin Trow: Twentieth
Century Higher Education – elite to mass to universal, Baltimore, 2010, Johns Hopkins University
Press, pp. 175 – 177.
“Grundlagen” in Walter Ruegg (Ed) Geschichte der Universitaet in Europa, Band IV vom Zweiten
Weltkrieg bis zum End des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Munchen, 2010, C.H. Beck Verlag, pp. 47 –
75.
“Patterns” in Walter Ruegg and Hilda de Ridder Simoens (Eds) (2011) A History of the University in
Europe, vol. 4 1945 – 1990. Cambridge University Press, pp. 32 – 75.
“El Estudio de la gobernanza en la educación superior: vaciamento, re-construcción y re-ingeniería del
significado” in Rocio Grediago Kuri y Romualdo López Zárate (Eds) Aportaciones a la agenda de
investigación subre educación superior 2010 – 2020, Mexico, 2011, Universidad Autónomia
Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco, pp. 261 – 298.
With Alberto Amaral “On Exceptionalism: The Nation, a Generation and Higher Education: Portugal
1974- 2009” in Neave and Amaral (Eds) Higher Education in Portugal 1974 – 2009: a Nation, a
Generation, Dordrecht, 2011,Springer Books, pp.1-46.
IV. ARTICLES.
“Times, Measures and the Man: the Future of British Higher Education treated historically and
comparatively”, Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 60, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 115 – 128.
“The Evaluative State and Bologna: Old Wine in New Bottles or simply the Ancient Practice of „Coupage‟?
Higher Education Forum, vol.3, March 2006, Hiroshima (Japan) Research Institute for Higher
Education, Hiroshima University, pp. 27 - 46.
“On Incorporating the University” Higher Education Policy, vol. 19, No.2, June 2006, pp. 129 -134.
“Re-defining the Social Contract” Higher Education Policy, vol. 19, No.3, September 2006, pp. 269 –
289
“On Monsieur de Talleyrand Périgord‟s Qualities”, Higher Education Policy, vol.19, No.4 December
2006.
With Alberto Amaral “On Process, Progress, Success and Methodology
Or, the Unfolding of the Bologna Process as it appears to Two Reasonably Benign Observers,” Higher
Education Quarterly, vol. 62, Nos. 1-2, 2008, pp. 40-62.
“Burton R. Clark 1921 – 2009: The Man. His Saga and His Times”, London Review of Education, vol.8,
No. 3 November 2010, pp. 209 – 216.
“The Changing „Vision Thing‟: Academia and the changing mission of higher education”
Educação, Sociedade, Cultura, vol. 33 January 2011, pp. 15 - 36.
V. PAPERS PRESENTED TO CONFERENCES, KEYNOTE SPEECHES.
“The Bologna Process or, Policy as the Artilleryman‟s Despair: An Unmoving Tale of Moving Targets”,
Paper presented to the ARENA/HEDDA Seminar, „European Integration and Higher Education‟,
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Oslo, April 24 2006, pp. 13
“Knowledge Certified and Knowledge useful: The Enterprize University from von Humboldt W to Bush, V
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– and beyond”, Keynote presented to the IGS Spring Conference, June 15 – 16 2006, Enschede,
Netherlands, 9 pp.
“Setting the Estimated Time of Arrival: Goals, Purposes and Progress in making Europe Competitive and
Attractive” Keynote presentation to the Conference The Lisbon Agenda and the Way Ahead, Lisbon,
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July 10 – 11 2006, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 23pp.
“The Privatization of Higher Education and the Dynamic of the Evaluative State,“ Keynote Presentation
to 8th Meeting-of the Forum nacional Ensino superior particular brasiliero, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
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October 19 –21 2006, World Trade Centre Sao Paulo pp.21.
with Peter Maassen “The Bologna Process from Cultural Identity to Social Cohesion” Presentation to the
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VIIIth Douro Seminar “European Integration and Higher Education Governance, September 30 to
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October 3 2006 pp.22.
“From Guardian to Overseer: Trends in Institutional Autonomy, Governance and Leadership.” Address
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to the Portuguese National Council on Education, Lisbon, February 17 2007, pp.18.
“Now you see it, now you don‟t. Privatization as the Will o‟ the Wisp in the higher education policies of
Western Europe”, Keynote Address to the Conference „Privatization in Higher Education‟ The
Samuel Neaman Institute for the Advanced Study of Science and Technology, Technion, Israel Institute
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of Technology, Haifa, Israel, January 6 – 8 2008, 39pp.
“On Steering Policy, Strategic Positioning, the Rise of Markets and the Giving of Gifts”,
Commentary to the Conference „Privatization in Higher Education‟ The Samuel Neaman Institute for
the Advanced Study of Science and Technology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel,
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January 6 – 8 2008, 10pp.
“The Treasure Chest of Higher Education: the Gold of Excellence and its different currencies” Address to
the Award Ceremony of Excellent Quality in Higher Education, Stockholm, 2008, Hogskolverket. 5pp.
“The Changing „Vision Thing‟: Academia and the changing mission of higher education”, Keynote
Presentation to the Conference “Il Cambaimento delle funzioni dell‟instruzione ne paesi europei,
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Milan (Italy) Università degli Studi de Milano Bicocca, November 17 2008, 22pp.
“Stratification, Justification and Tempting the Devil: The Future of European HE” Seminar on the Future
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of European Higher Education, Porto, Portugal June 22 2009, 9pp.
“Studying Governance in Higher Education: Evacuating, Re-constructing and Re-engineering Meaning”,
Keynote Presentation to The Research Agenda on Higher Education: Third Meeting, Mexico City
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September 28 – 29 2009 Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, 21pp.
“Burton R. Clark 1921 – 2009: The Man, His Saga, His Times”, Keynote speech to Burton R. Clark
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Commemoration Seminar, London University Institute of Education, March 31 2010, 12pp.
“The Strange Saga of Policy as Success. Or, Some Thoughts of a heretical nature on
policy, rhetoric and perception”, Presentation to the SRHE International Research and Researchers‟
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European Event, London July 10 2011, Institute of Education, (Xerox) 11pp.
Forthcoming 2012.
Books.
The Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western
Europe: the Prince and his Pleasure, (to appear in May 2012) Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave
Academic, 254, pp.
Chapters.
“Change, Leverage, Suasion and Intent: an historical excursion across three decades of
Change in Higher Education in Western Europe” in Claudia Sarrico, Jussi Valimaa and
Bjorn Stensaker (Eds) Managing Reform in Universities: the dynamics of Culture, Identity and
organizational Change, (forthcoming) Basingstoke, Palgrave Academic. 20 pp.
“International Relations: a central business” in Pedro Teixeira (Ed) One Hundred Years of the
University of Porto (provisional title) Porto. 40pp + graphics.
“On Meeting the Mass in Higher Education” in Mordechai Feingold (Ed) The Modern
University: History and Prospects (provisional title) Pasadena, CalTech, 27pp.
“Contrary Imaginations: France, Reform and the California Master Plan” in Sheldon
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Rothblatt (Ed) Clark Kerr‟s World reaches the 21 Century: Chapters in a Special History,
Dordrecht/Heidelberg, Springer Books, 34pp.
Total 52 elements produced from 2006 – 2012 january
5 more to appear in 2012.