UID:
almafu_9958198344302883
Format:
1 online resource (397 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
ISBN:
9781137528698
,
1137528699
Series Statement:
African Histories and Modernities,
Content:
This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities and curricula realignments to meet the shifting demands of the economy. Moreover, the systems of knowledge production, organization, dissemination, and consumption, as well as the disciplinary architecture of knowledge underwent significant changes. Internationalization emerged as one of the defining features of higher education, which engendered new modes, rationales, and practices of collaboration, competition, comparison, and commercialization. External and internal pressures for accountability and higher education’s value proposition intensified, which fueled struggles over access, affordability, relevance, and outcomes that found expression in the quality assurance movement. .
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137578570
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1137578572
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-52869-8
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