The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings. Based on a unified case methodology of eleven key countries and academic institutions, this comprehensive volume provides expert analysis on this emerging phenomenon at a time when world rankings are becoming increasingly visible and influential on the international stage. Each chapter provides an overview of government and national policies as well as an in-depth examination of the impact that rankings have played on policy, practice, and academic life in...
The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings. Based on a unifi...
Since their founding, African colleges and universities have faced numerous challenges. While most are legacies of colonialism, these institutions are affected by particular conditions and realities in their home countries. This book is the first comprehensive survey of all aspects and dimensions of higher education in Africa today. It includes a historical overview of higher educational resources in Africa; descriptions of the size, scope, and nature of higher education in each African nation; and analyses of current and timely topics, such as the state of private higher education in...
Since their founding, African colleges and universities have faced numerous challenges. While most are legacies of colonialism, these institutions ...
Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies. The only book currently available to lend an international focus to this subject, it examines such topics as accreditation, funding, and the impact of the market in the context of Latin American, European, and Asian higher education, and is a unique and invaluable study for researchers and policymakers...
Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide ...
In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education illuminate worldwide trends in critical issues that confront policymakers and practitioners in different national settings. Among the topics raised and analyzed are the organization, governance, and financing of education; the content of curriculum, texts, and tests; and the quality and nature of teacher training. Among the issues examined is the tension that has emerged between the imperative to achieve equality of educational opportunity and...
In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education il...
The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovations that the nations of the Pacific Rim have developed for their schools, and it analyzes how these educational systems have tried to meet the challenges of rapid social and economic change. It is unique in that it provides in-depth coverage of the Asian approach to education and explicitly discusses the implications of Asian education for America. There is special interest in Asian countries, not only because of their unparalleled economic...
The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovation...
Philip G. Altbach Patricia J. Gumport D. Bruce Johnstone
The current era in higher education is characterized by increased need for accountability and fiscal constraint coupled with demands for increased productivity. Higher education is expected to meet the demand of changing student demographics, as well as requests for research and service from government and industry. To preserve the academy's ability to meet these demands, the editors and contributors to this volume argue that, while change is inevitable and desirable, any radical alterations to the practices that have established and upheld the excellence of higher education in the United...
The current era in higher education is characterized by increased need for accountability and fiscal constraint coupled with demands for increased ...
Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world. Both developed and developing nations are witnessing rapid expansion in the higher education sector. Nor is this progress entirely quantitative: a number of Asian universities are on a par with the finest institutions of higher education in the U.S. and Europe. Until now, however, there has been little historical analysis and virtually no comparative analysis of Asian higher education.
This volume offers a detailed comparative study of the emergence of the...
Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world. Both developed and de...
Billie Dziech wrote The Lecherous Professor in 1984; articulating the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. This work reflects on a variety of aspects of sexual harassment, its litigation and law.
Billie Dziech wrote The Lecherous Professor in 1984; articulating the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. This work reflects on a variet...
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report calling for the total reassessment of policy and curriculum governing American education. The commission's findings were met with impassioned interest and volcanic debate. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war," set the tone of the views expressed in the report. Seemingly overnight, the "education crisis" became a battleground on which citizens, education professionals and numerous...
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report calling for the total reassessment of policy and curriculum governing Ameri...
