The international imperative in higher education / by Philip G. Altbach.

21st century higher education faces immense changesfrom the broad impact of globalization to the implications of massification and the growth of enrollments worldwide. The International Imperative in Higher Education focuses on most of the central elements affecting universities worldwide. Included...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Altbach, Philip G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense, [2013]
Series:Global perspectives on higher education ; v. 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part.1. Gloalization and its implications. . Part.2. Global issues. Part.3. Mobility, brian drain, and brain exchange?
  • Part.4. The academic profession
  • Part.5. Rankings and world-class
  • Part.6. Branch campuses and franchising
  • Part.7. Knowledge distribution
  • Part.8. Agents and recruiters: a global dilemma
  • Part. 9. Academic freedom
  • Part.10. Asian perspectives
  • Part.11. China
  • Part.12. India.