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Higher Education Policy, published quarterly is an international journal for advancing scholarly understanding of the policy process applied to higher education through the publication of original analyses, both theoretical and practice-based, the focus of which may range from case studies of developments in individual institutions to policy making at systems and at national level. Through this journal the International Association of Universities wishes to strengthen the exchange between scholarship and issues of practical administrative concern within the perspective of the disciplines that contribute to the study of this field - anthropology, history, economics, public administration, political science, government, law, sociology, philosophy, psychology, policy analysis and the sociology of organisations. The editorial board will give every encouragement to original contributions, whether theoretical, conceptual or empirical in nature, which involves explicit inter-system and cross-national comparisons. Articles devoted to less reported systems of higher education and their evolution, are particularly welcome. The major criteria retained in the process of review and selection are the significance of the submission to decision-making and policy development in higher education as well as its intrinsic quality. Since the study of policy in higher education draws upon a broad range of disciplines, a cross-disciplinary methodology will have equal consideration. The aim of Higher Education Policy is to provide a peer-reviewed vehicle of the highest quality for institutional leadership, scholars, practitioners and administrators at all levels of higher education to have access to, keep abreast of, and contribute to, the most advanced analyses available in this domain.

Thematic Issues

HEP has in the past published thematic issues (Africa and Internationalization http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v22/n3/index.html, Gender in Higher Education http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v22/n1/index.html) or issues based around papers presented at conferences, symposiums etc (Institutional Autonomy http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v20/n3/index.html, Higher Education in the 21st Century — Diversity of Missions http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v21/n2/index.html, Sustaining Diversity: Differentiating Higher Education Systems in a Knowledge Society http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v20/n4/index.html).

Both the editorial team and the publishers of the journal, Palgrave Macmillan, welcome submissions on thematic areas that tie in to the mission of HEP, and should you have any proposals for thematic issues, or papers already written but not yet published please contact us on iau@iau-aiu.net

As of 1 January 2007, Higher Education Policy has a new Editor. Taking his retirement from IAU, Professor Guy Neave, founding editor of HEP, has been succeeded by Professor Jeroen Huisman, Director, International Centre for Higher Education Management, School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Articles should be submitted electronically whenever possible either directly to Professor Huisman (j.huisman@bath.ac.uk) or to Mr. Nicholas Poulton, Editorial Assistant at IAU at n.poulton@iau-aiu.net

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Articles should be typed double-spaced with ample margins (unjustified) on A4 or 8½" or 11" paper. They should not normally exceed 7,000 words; notes and bibliography should be presented separately. References should include full name of the author, date of publication, and number of pages. Diagrams and tables should be presented on separate pages, clearly labelled with the author's name, and numbered; their respective positions should be included in the text.

References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a. b. c, etc., should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

  • For articles:
Chilstrom, G. A. (1984) 'Psychological aspects of the nuclear arms race', Journal of Humanistic Psychology 24: 39-54.
  • For books:
Bracken, P. J. (1983) The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces, New Haven:Yale University Press.
  • For chapters within books:
Holsti, O. R. (1972) 'Time, alternatives, and communications: the 1914 and Cuban missile crisis', in C. F. Hermann (ed.) International Crises: Insights from Behavioural Research, pp. 60-63. New York, Free Press.

Titles of the journals should not be abbreviated.

Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 100-150 words and up to 6 key words using the ERIC index of descriptors or an alternative system; the abstract and key words will be printed at the beginning of the paper. The contributor's name, address, and a brief biography should be given on a separate sheet of paper. Where possible the fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author should be supplied with the manuscript.

Editorial Advisory Board 2008 -
- Agneta Bladh, University College of Kalmar, Sweden
- David Dill, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Ellen Hazelkorn, Dublin Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland
- Glen Jones, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
- Rollin Kent, Universidad Autónoma De Puebla, Mexico
- Maria Jose Lemaitre, Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo (CINDA), Chile
- Daniel Levy, State University of New York at Albany, USA
- Louis Levy-Garboua, Université Paris I, France
- Simon Marginson, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Ka Ho Mok, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK
- José-Ginés Mora, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Guy Neave, Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, The Nethelands
- Helena Sebkova, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Prague, Czech Republic
- Mala Singh, Council on Higher Education, South Africa
- Morshidi Sirat, National Higher Education Research Institute, Malaysia
- Ulrich Teichler, INCHER, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India
- Frans A. van Vught, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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