Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848445857 ISBN 13: 9781848445857

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Higher education has entered center-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 organizations, national governments and by higher education institutions themselves. They analyze local responses to dominant global templates of higher education and the consequences for knowledge generation, social equity, economic development and the public good.

This comprehensive and accessible Handbook will prove an invaluable reference tool for researchers, academics and students with an interest in higher education from economics, international studies and public policy perspectives, as well as for higher education policy makers, and funding and governance bodies.

Contributors include: P. Brown, V. Carpentier, Q. Chen, D.D. Dill, J. Enders, E. Hazelkorn, G.A. Jones, S.G. Kamat, T. Kim, R. King, H. Lauder, Y. Lebeau, M. Li, A. Maldonado-Maldonado, S. Marginson, K.H. Mok, M. Mollis, C. Musselin, R. Naidoo, M. Olssen, M.A. Peters, E. Sall, M. Singh, W.G. Tierney, E. Unterhalter, J. Valimaa, M. van der Wende, J. Weinrib, D. Westerheijden, C. Ziguras

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Roger King, Visiting Professor, University of Bath, Visiting Professor, Open University, Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Visiting Professor, University of Queensland, Australia, Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Rajani Naidoo, Director and Doctor of Business Administration in Higher Education Management, University of Bath, UK

Review:

[T]he Handbook constitutes an essential reference source for everyone interested in studying the current meaning, scope and implications of globalization. Strongly recommended. --Higher Education Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848445857
• ISBN 13: 9781848445857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: King Roger, Marginson Simon, Naidoo Rajani