Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, ""world class"" research-oriented universities.
In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Altbach begins with a discussion of the global trends that increasingly affect higher education, including the implications of mass enrollments, the logic of mass higher education systems around the world, and specific challenges facing Brazil, Russia, India, and China. He considers the numerous implications of globalization, including the worldwide use of the English language, university cross-border initiatives, the role of research universities in developing countries, the impact of the West on Asian universities, and the expansion of private higher education.
Provocative and wide-ranging, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has fundamentally altered higher education.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources1. The Emergence and Reality of Contemporary Internationalization2. Tracking a Global Academic Revolution3. The Logic of Mass Higher Education4. The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers?5. Internationalization and Global Tension: Lessons from History6. Globalization and the University: Realities in an Unequal World7. The Internationalization of Higher Education: Motivations and Realities8. Higher Education Crosses Borders9. The Globalization of Rankings10. The Imperial Tongue: English as the Dominating Academic Language11. The University as Center and Periphery12. Research Universities in Developing Countries13. Twisted Roots: The Western Impact on Asian Higher Education14. Comparative Perspectives on Private Higher Education15. Academic Freedom: International Realities and Challenges16. The Giants Awake: Higher Education Systems in China and India17. Academic Remuneration and Contracts: Global Trends and Realities18. Student Political ActivismAbout the AuthorsIndex
""[Global Perspectives on Higher Education] offers an impressive summation of Altbach's work.""
