@inbook{294c871b85794d18ab09d5ac5b1bdf42,
title = "Reconciling Republican 'Egalite' and Global Excellence Values in French Higher Education",
abstract = "Building prestigious higher education is today one of the main drivers of public policy. Many governments have initiated policies to support or create {\'e}lite universities in the belief that they will boost their system{\textquoteright}s prestige in the world. Despite the assumption that all countries will make similar world-class university policy choices, a growing body of criticism points out that {\'e}lite universities are in fact an ideal type drawn from a narrow pool, Anglo-American in nature, and currently dominant. By examining how a system with different public norms and values managed excellence policies, the chapter considers how the idea of {\textquoteleft}world-class university{\textquoteright} might be generalised. The chapter looks at excellence initiatives in France to explore (a) how world-class university policies are introduced in a system with values which contradict those embodied by today{\textquoteright}s prevailing notion of global excellence and (b) whether these initiatives benefit the system as a whole",
keywords = "IR-83225, METIS-292336",
author = "Leon Cremonini and Benneworth, {Paul Stephen} and H. Dauncey and Westerheijden, {Donald F.}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-4975-7_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-94-007-4974-0",
series = "The changing academy",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "6",
pages = "99--123",
editor = "J.C. Shin and B.M. Kehm",
booktitle = "Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition",
address = "Germany",
}