The international imperative in higher education

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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Main Author: Altbach, Philip G.
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense, [2013]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages).
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.