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Books in the Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education series

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  • - Representations and Rationales in British Policy
    by Sylvie Lomer
    £73.49 - 104.49

    This book offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the UK's policy on recruiting international students.

  • - Strengths, Prospects and Challenges
     
    £114.49

    This book examines student mobility within Africa. In what is referred to in the book as intra-Africa mobility, the books explores and analyzes the patterns of intra-Africa mobility based on seven African countries: South Africa, Kenya,Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Egypt.

  • by Tristan McCowan
    £90.49

    This book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This timely volume will be of interest and value to those working in the field of sustainable development, and to students and scholars of comparative education, international development and higher education studies.

  • - Indicators across National Contexts
    by Catherine Yuan Gao
    £74.49

    This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries.

  • - Reform and Continuity
     
    £22.49

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

  • - Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society
    by Per-Anders Forstorp & Ulf Mellstroem
    £114.49

    This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings.

  • - Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness
    by Tero Erkkila & Ossi Piironen
    £104.49

    Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings.

  • - Reform and Continuity
     
    £22.49

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

  • - Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education
     
    £124.49

    This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions.

  • - Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective
     
    £134.99

    This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control.

  • - Tales from Northern and Central Europe
     
    £114.49

    This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic.

  • - Italian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective
    by Giliberto Capano, Marino Regini & Matteo Turri
    £104.49

  • by Michelle Stack
    £47.99

    Higher Education Institutions simultaneously critique and participate in national and international rankings of universities. However, this creates a difficult situation since if universities do participate in rankings they acquiesce to a system based in media logics that has little to do with academic norms of research.

  • - Global Perspectives
    by Maria Yudkevich, Laura E. Rumbley & Philip G. Altbach
    £38.49 - 47.99

    Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.

  • - Europe on the Move
    by Christof Van Mol
    £47.99

    Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book empirically investigates the (im)mobility decisions, social network formation, sense of European identity and migratory aspirations of higher education students. It draws on a large-scale survey, in-depth interviews and focus groups, conducted in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Poland and the UK.

  • - Transformation of Learning and Society
     
    £47.99

    To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.

  • - Transformation of Learning and Society
     
    £47.99

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  • - Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy
    by Simon Marginson, L. Tran, T. Le, et al.
    £93.99

    Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.

  • - International Challenges to Historical Institutions
    by Christoph Knill & Michael Dobbins
    £47.99

    This book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of 'soft Europeanization' on higher education governance in Western Europe. Using concrete indicators of policy change, it focuses on university reform in Italy, France, Germany and the UK to explore how historical legacies and transnational communication have impacted policy pathways.

  • - Processes and Outcomes
    by Harry de Boer, Jon File, Marco Seeber, et al.
    £73.49 - 104.49

    This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems.

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