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This book is presented in two parts. Part 1, 'Recent developments in public sector higher education', which maps developments in public sector higher education in Great Britain, the Netherlands and West Germany, contains: Reforms in British higher education / P. Scott; Change in the British public sector / G. Mungeam; Change in the British public sector: an institutional view / J. Stoddart; Management control in higher education: a concept for polytechnics / A. H. Spoor & J. den Hollander; Management on non-university post-secondary institutions: the German Fachhochschulen / R. Dalheimer. Part 2, 'System change and institutional response', is in two sections. Section I, 'Merger as a mechanism for change', contains: Institutional mergers in Australian higher education / V. L. Meek; Blown on the steel breeze: institutional mergers in Dutch higher vocational education. Section II, 'Government control and institutional managerial discretion', contains: University-government relations and academic organization / C. Fincher; The relationship between government planning and financing and institutional management of higher vocational education in the Netherlands / A. J. J. Spee & R. P. van Brouwershaven.