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Title Handbook on globalization and higher education / edited by Roger King, Simon Marginson, Rajani Naidoo
Published Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 541 pages)
Series Elgar original reference
Elgar original reference.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I GENERIC; 1 Introduction to Part I; 2 Imagining the global; 3 Rethinking development: higher education and the new imperialism; 4 The university as a global institution; 5 Three forms of the knowledge economy: learning, creativity and openness; 6 Global institutions: the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; 7 Extra-national provision; 8 Global institutions, higher education and development; 9 Globalization, higher education and inequalities: problems and prospects
PART II CASE STUDIES10 Introduction to Part II; 11 Regional responses to globalization challenges: the assertion of soft power and changing university governance in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia; 12 Global 'toolboxes', local 'toolmaking': the contradictions of external evaluation in South African higher education reform; 13 Globalization and higher education in Canada; 14 Globalization, internationalization and the world-class university movement: the China experience; 15 European higher education and the process of integration
16 Neoliberal globalization and higher education policy in India17 Globalization and higher education in South Korea: towards ethnocentric internationalization or global commercialization of higher education?; 18 The invisible topics on the public agenda for higher education in Argentina; 19 Globalization, a knowledge-based regime and higher education: where do Mexican universities stand?; 20 Globalization in the USA: the case of California; 21 The strange death of the liberal university: research assessments and the impact of research; PART III GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; 22 Introduction to Part III
23 Strategizing and ordering the global24 Governing knowledge globally: science, structuration and the open society; 25 Governing quality; 26 Convergences and divergences in steering higher education systems; 27 The Bologna Process: from the national to the regional to the global, and back; 28 The standardization of higher education, positional competition and the global labor market; 29 Measuring world- class excellence and the global obsession with rankings; Index
Summary Higher education has entered centre-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 organisations, national governments and by higher education institutions themselves. They analyse loca
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Community colleges -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
Education and globalization.
Higher education and state.
Education.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Community colleges
Education
Education and globalization
Education, Higher
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Higher education and state
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author King, Roger
Marginson, Simon, 1951-
Naidoo, Rajani.
ISBN 9780857936233
0857936239
1283294079
9781283294072