Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions. These partnerships have involved the creation of branch campuses, joint research and technology initiatives, collaboration in strengthening institutional management, testing, faculty development efforts, collaboration in quality assurance, and sharing of technology. Cross-national collaborations are a growing financial and informational resource for universities, and non-Western schools are...
Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges...
The twenty-first century has the potential to be the era of universal higher education access: the post-massification century. The growth of knowledge-based service industries and an increased need for technological and social innovations require more education, training, and re-training at the post-secondary level. This edited collection addresses the crucial issues emerging from this ongoing expansion of higher education, focusing on how national systems of higher education can respond to demands for further expansion when traditional routes to higher education have been largely...
The twenty-first century has the potential to be the era of universal higher education access: the post-massification century. The growth of knowle...
In this volume, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia critically address the subject of universities and regional development, focusing on policy, organization, and the role of individual actors to uncover the challenges facing higher education institutions as they seek to engage with their regions.
In this volume, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia critically address the subject of universities and regional development, focusing...
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement. The Engaged University is a fully empirical account of a genuinely global movement of higher education institutions to increase university civic engagement.
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement. The Engaged University is a fully empirical account of a genuinely global movement of higher education...
Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014! As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university's mission has changed. Official reviews and debates often forget to inquire into the purposes and responsibilities of universities, and how they are changing. Where these matters are addressed, they are rarely pursued in depth, and rarely go beyond current circumstances. Those who care about the...
Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014! As universities increa...
There are 100 million students in higher education throughout the world today. This collection provides some indication of what are they are learning and of their wider experiences.
There are 100 million students in higher education throughout the world today. This collection provides some indication of what are they are learning ...
Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has been the most controversial in many of the nations that have such policies. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse nations to examine and discuss the historical, political and philosophical contexts of affirmative action and clarify policy developments to further the meaningful equality of educational opportunity. This unique volume includes both well established and emerging policies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, policies which...
Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has been the most co...
In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. The increasing centrality of diversity is fueled in part by changing demographics, immigration, social movements, calls for remedies to historic grievances, and the relationship between identity and access to power. This book will provide an opportunity to look at efforts at institutional change with respect to diversity in several countries where issues of diversity are moving...
In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major op...
The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government subsidies, to one where students pay a larger share of the costs. There are a number of factors driving these trends, including: A push for massification of higher education, in the recognition that additional revenue streams are required above and beyond those funds available from governments in order to achieve higher participation rates ...
The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a syst...
The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a university, they usually think of a distinctive place, rather than about say the teaching or the research that might go on there. This is understandable, both because universities usually stay rooted to the same spot over the centuries; and because their physical forms may send powerful messages about the kind of places they are.
The physical form of the university, and how the spaces within it become transformed by their users into places which hold...
The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a universi...
