Foreword: Some Random Reflections on Higher Education Institutions in Small Islands by Godfrey Baldacchino

1. Introduction - Holly Henderson and Rosie Alexander

Part 1: Scale, Smallness and Higher Education Development

2. Small but Complex: The Governance and Management of Public Higher Education Institutions – the Case of Malta - Colin Borg and Carmel Borg

3. Underdeveloped, Frontier and Outermost: Small Island Universities in Indonesia - Agustian Sutrisno and Hitendra Pillay

4. The Perceived Quality of Higher Education in Oceania: Autoethnographic Insights from the Regional University of the South Pacific - Sargam Goundar and Kim Andreas Kessler

5. Island Higher Education and Youth Migration: Retention, Attraction or Rotation? - Rosie Alexander

Part 2: Global Contexts for Island Higher Education

6. What Does Internationalization in Isolation Mean for Higher Education in Small Island States? - Daniela Craciun and Ariane de Gayardon

7. Insularity and Internationalization: The Case of Mauritius - Shaheen Motala-Timol

8. Glocalizing Higher Education and Decolonial Work in Oceania - David Taufui Mikato Fa‘avae and Jean M. Uasike Allen

9. Conclusions - Rosie Alexander and Holly Henderson

•Empirical case studies from an international range of small island contexts give insight into places often excluded from Higher Education scholarship

•Thematic sections highlight four distinct aspects of scholarship in this under-researched area, enabling easy navigation across the collection

•Overarching themes address contemporary issues such as internationalization and post-coloniality, offering new perspectives from diverse locations

•The collection asks critical questions about the nature of centre, periphery and remoteness in Higher Education, arguing that these questions are applicable beyond the small island context