Introduction / Jan Currie.- Globalization and education policy in Australia / Janice Dudley.- National higher education policies in a global economy / Sheila Slaughter.- The changing political economy : the private and public lives of Canadian universities / Donald Fisher and Kjell Rubenson.- The service university in service societies : the Norwegian experience / Arild Tjeldvoll.- The last decade of higher education reform in Australia and France : different constraints, differing choices in higher education politics and policies / Richard Deangelis.- Micro-economic reform through managerialism in American and Australian universities / Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich.- Don't count your blessings : the social accomplishments of performance indicators / Claire Polster and Janice Newson.- Changing accountability and autonomy at the "coalface" of academic work in Australia / Lesley Vidovich and Jan Currie.- The entrepreneurial university : macro and micro perspectives from the United States / Edward H. Berman.- Globalization and distance education mega-institutions : mega-ambivalence! / Mick Campion and David Freeman.- Globalization, the OECD and the Australian higher education / Robert Lingard and Fazal Rizvi.- Reshaping the educational agendas of Mexican universities : the impact of NAFTA / Heriberta Castanos-Lomnitz, Axel Didriksson, and Janice Newson.- Conclusion : repositioning the local through alternative responses to globalization / Janice Newson.