The worldwide transformation of higher education /
Higher education worldwide, including the university and other related academic programs, is currently undergoing intensive change and transformation perhaps as no other time in its long history. One factor contributing to this rapid transformation is the global expansion of higher education at unpr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Group Publishing,
2008
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| Series: | International perspectives on education and society ;
v. 9. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Changes in access to higher education: from worldwide constraints to common patterns of reform? / Gaële Goastellec
- World university rankings / David Turner
- Corruption in higher education / John C. Weidman and Adiya Enkhjargal
- Women's studies as a global innovation / Christine Min Wotipka and Francisco O. Ramirez
- The research university in context : the examples of Brazil and Germany / Karin Amos, Lúcia Bruno, and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
- Historical legacies of Soviet higher education and the transformation of higher education systems in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia / Mark S. Johnson
- The World Bank and higher education in the developing world : the cases of Uganda and Thailand / Christopher S. Collins and Robert A. Rhoads
- Rapid expansion of higher education in South Korea : political economy of education fever / Sunwoong Kim
- China's move to mass higher education : an analysis of policy making from a rational framework / Jun Li and Jing Lin
- The impact of neo-liberalism on Taiwanese higher education / Chuing Prudence Chou
- America in the world : higher education and the global marketplace / Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson.
