Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some
time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of
expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access
promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor
underpinning economic success for individuals and societies. However,
universal higher education in rapidly changing economies raises many
questions that have been inadequately treated by previous authors.
This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and
inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so
diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as
aggregates of market-like transactions. Most of the authors are not
satisfied with this conclusion, but they recognise, from several
disciplinary perspectives, that it is no longer possible to take it
for granted that higher education is intrinsically a public good. Are
there convincing alternatives?
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781454199946
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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