International Higher Education. Reflections on Policy and Practice.

Autor/in	Altbach, Philip G.
Institution	Boston College; Center for International Higher Education
Titel	International Higher Education. Reflections on Policy and Practice.
Quelle	Chestnut Hill (2006), 187 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Welt; Asien; Hongkong; Indien; Mexiko
Abstract	All of the contents of this book appeared in "International Higher Education", the quarterly publication of the Boston College Center for International Higher Education. Contents: PART 1. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (1. What Higher Education Does Right. A Millenium Accounting. - 2. Global Challenge and National Response. Notes for an International Dialogue on Higher Education. - 3. The Crisis in Multinational Higher Education). - PART 2. GLOBALIZATION (4. Higher Education and the WTO. Globalizatiopn Run Amok. - 5. GATS Redux. The WTO and Higher Education Returns to Center Stage. - 6. Knowledge and Education as International Commodities. The Collapse of the Common Good. - 7. Why the United States will not be a Market for Foreign Higher Education. A Case against GATS). - PART 3. INTERNATIONALIZATION (8. The Perils of Internationalizing Higher Education. An Asian Perspective. - 9. American Accreditation of Foreign Universities. Colonialism in Action. - 10. Foreign Study. Changing Patterns and Competitive Challenges. - 11. International Higher Education. American Abdicates Leadership. - 12. Internationalize American Higher Education. Not Exactly). - PART 4. RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES (13. The Costs and Benefits of World-Class Universities. - 14. The Dilemmas of Ranking. - 15. A World-Class Country without World-Class Higher Education. India's 21st Century Dilemma. - 16. The Tyranny of Citations). - PART 5. ECONOMIC ISSUES (17. Who is Paying for Higher Education - and Why? - 18. Let the Buyer Pay. International Trends in Funding for Higher Education). - PART 6. PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION (19. The Rise of the Pseudouniversity. - 20. The Anatomy of Private Higher Education. - 21. Private Higher Education. Themes and Variations in Comparative Perspective. - 22. The Private Sector in Asian Higher Education). - PART 7. THE DILEMMA OF CORRUPTION (23. Academic Corruption. The Continuing Challenge. - 24. The Question of Corruption in Academe). - PART 8. THE ACADEMIC PROFESSION (25. The Deteriorating Guru. The Crisis of the Professoriate. - 26. Academic Salaries, Academic Corruption, and the Academic Career. - 27. Contradictions of Academic Development. Exploiting the Professoriate and Weakening the University. - 28. The American Academic Profession. Future Challenges. - 29. Cosmopolitanism Run Amok. Work and Rewards in Asia's Universities. - 30. Evaluating and Rewarding Professors. Mexican Style). - PART 9. ACADEMIC FREEDOM (31. Academic Freedom. International Warning Signs. - 32. Academic Freedom in Hong Kong. Threats Inside and Out). - PART 10. CURRENT ISSUES (33. What's in a Name? How Universities sow confusion and cheapen Academe. - 34. Students. Politics and Revolution. - 35. The University of Buenos Aires Model for the Future of Higher Education. A Neglected Perspective) (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2009/4