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The Global University : Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
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Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities. Some herald the globalization of higher educa...
Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities. Some herald the globalization of higher education as the key to a dynamic and productive 'knowledge society.' Others worry that modern universities have come to resemble multinational corporations.
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- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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- 1 online resource (285 pages)
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- 0230392458, 9780230392458, 1280681217, 9786613658159, 9781280681219, 1349351954, 9780230392465, 0230392466
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- ocn795120200, ocn795507461
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Regionalism(s) and Global Higher-Education Reform; 1 Global Aspirations and Strategizing for World-Class Status: New Modes of Higher-Education Governance and the Emergence of Regulatory Regionalism in East Asia; 2 Contributing to the Southeast Asian Knowledge Economy? Australian Offshore Campuses in Malaysia and Vietnam; Part II The Changing Dimensions of University Governance; 3 Collegiality and Hierarchy: Coordinating Principles in Higher Education
- 4 The Twenty-First-Century University: Dilemmas of Leadership and Organizational FuturesPart III Academic Roles and the Purposes of Universities; 5 Medieval Universities and Aspirations to Universal Significance; 6 The Changing Role of the Academic: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Part IV Shifting Patterns of Graduate and Undergraduate Education; 7 Toward General Education in the Global University: The Chinese Model; 8 Doctoral Education and the Global University: Student Mobility, Hierarchy, and Canadian Government Policy; Part V Universities and External Funding
- 9 What Can Modern Universities Learn from the Past? English Universities Working with Industry, 1870-191410 Universities and the Effects of External Funding: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Nordic Countries; Conclusion: Lessons from the Past, Considerations for the Future; Notes on Contributors