This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms.Using diverse comparative education paradigms from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the chapters focus on globalisation, ideology...
This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and st...