Higher Education in the UK and the US : Converging University Models in a Global Academic World?.
Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World? compares current trends in two educational systems. It focuses on ideologies, structures, economics, marketisation, access, admittance and the student experience from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brill,
2014
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| Series: | Youth in a globalizing world.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Higher Education in the UK and the US; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Charts, Figures, Tables and Illustrations; Note on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: The Economics and Marketisation of Higher Education; 1 Creating the Enterprising Student: The Moral Projects of Neoliberalism and Higher Education Reform in the UK and the US; 2 Education Markets in English and American Universities; 3 Higher Education in the United Kingdom under Tony Blair: An American Inspired Economic Issue; 4 The English Experiment in Market-Based Higher Education: Ideology and Reality Disconnected.
- Part 2: Access and Admission to Higher Education5 Are Admissions Models for Undergraduate Study Converging Among Highly Selective Universities in England and the US?; 6 Widening Participation in English Universities: Accessing Social Justice?; 7 Access and the Rise of Accountability in the Governance of Public Universities in the US; Part 3: The Student Experience of Higher Education; 8 The Quality of the Student's Learning Experience: A Strategic Dimension of British and American Higher Education Systems in the Early 21st Century.
- 9 The Decline in Study Time in British and American Universities: Unravelling the Paradox in Two Knowledge Economies10 The Student Experience in the UK and the US: Two Converging Pictures of Decline?; 11 British Students in the Winter Protests: Still a New Social Movement?; Index.
