During 1991 the programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) of the OECD launched a project to study the impact of information technology within higher education and to identify its implication for institutional management. This book
· documents the main objectives of the investigation: to investigate the state of the art of IT in European higher education;
· identifies the potential of IT and the impact of IT developments on higher education;
· identifies the management issues of IT for institutional decision makers and decision making structures.
The book is split into two sections: the first provides an analysis of the findings under five specific headings; teaching and learning, research, administration, management and libraries; while the second consists of comparative country-based reports. Throughout the book, the authors identify the strategic and management issues that emerged for the management of higher education.
Professor Gordon Bull is the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Brighton