Higher education and state legitimation in Cyprus
Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: This paper will investigate the state's utilisation of higher education \npolicy as 'compensatory legitimation' within the Cypriot context in the late 1980s. \nIt argues that not only the establishment of the University of Cyprus in 1989 - after \nthirty years of strong nationalist opposition during the British colonial \nadministration and another thirty years of state hesitation and postponement \nduring political independence - but also the character of the established \nUniversity (state-based and linked to the international community of scholarship) \ncan be explained mainly as the result of the state's decision to utilise higher \neducation in order to make up for its serious deficit in legitimacy. It also maintains \nthat the state used the policy strategy of expertise and to a lesser extent the policy \nstrategy of participation in order to legitimate the process that determined \nthe character of both the University and the knowledge that it was expected to \nproduce.
Source: OAR@UM (University of Malta)
Author: Panayiotis Persianis
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W226964469