| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Woburn education series |
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Woburn education series
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| Contents |
The rise of mass higher education / Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman -- Values, discourse and politics: an Austrialian comparative perspective / Chris Duke -- The politics of access to higher education in France / Cecile Deer -- Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education / Hanna Ostermann -- The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate / Simonetta Michelotti -- Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends / Frans Kaiser and Hans Vossensteyn -- Access to higher education in the Nordic countries / Per Olaf Aamodt and Svein Kyvik -- Mass higher education in Poland: Coping with the 'Spanish Collar' / Clare McManus-Czubinska -- British higher education and the prism of devolution / Gareth Parry -- Access to higher education in England: who is in control? / Ted Tapper -- A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America's path towards access and equity in higher education / John Douglass -- Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education / Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman |
| Summary |
This books takes a comparative look at the ways in which most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass education. While keeping the global economic context in mind, it focuses on different national traditions and experiences of this phenomenon, addressing a key range of questions about the expanion and fiversification of higher education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Higher.
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Education, Higher -- Cross-cultural studies
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higher education.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education, Higher.
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Education, Higher
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tapper, Ted
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Palfreyman, David, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0203001532 |
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9780203001530 |
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0415354919 |
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9780415354912 |
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