Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 541 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781848445857
Content:
Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition. The expert contributors reveal the strategies, practices and governance mechanisms developed by international and regional organisations, national governments and by higher education institutions themselves. They analyse loca
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I GENERIC; 1 Introduction to Part I; 2 Imagining the global; 3 Rethinking development: higher education and the new imperialism; 4 The university as a global institution; 5 Three forms of the knowledge economy: learning, creativity and openness; 6 Global institutions: the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; 7 Extra-national provision; 8 Global institutions, higher education and development; 9 Globalization, higher education and inequalities: problems and prospects
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PART II CASE STUDIES10 Introduction to Part II; 11 Regional responses to globalization challenges: the assertion of soft power and changing university governance in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia; 12 Global 'toolboxes', local 'toolmaking': the contradictions of external evaluation in South African higher education reform; 13 Globalization and higher education in Canada; 14 Globalization, internationalization and the world-class university movement: the China experience; 15 European higher education and the process of integration
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16 Neoliberal globalization and higher education policy in India17 Globalization and higher education in South Korea: towards ethnocentric internationalization or global commercialization of higher education?; 18 The invisible topics on the public agenda for higher education in Argentina; 19 Globalization, a knowledge-based regime and higher education: where do Mexican universities stand?; 20 Globalization in the USA: the case of California; 21 The strange death of the liberal university: research assessments and the impact of research; PART III GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; 22 Introduction to Part III
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23 Strategizing and ordering the global24 Governing knowledge globally: science, structuration and the open society; 25 Governing quality; 26 Convergences and divergences in steering higher education systems; 27 The Bologna Process: from the national to the regional to the global, and back; 28 The standardization of higher education, positional competition and the global labor market; 29 Measuring world- class excellence and the global obsession with rankings; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9780857936233
Additional Edition:
Print version Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education
Language:
English
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