Massification and Differentiation in Postsecondary Education: A Marriage of Convenience?
During the last five decades the higher education landscape has changed dramatically. Once the privilege of an elite social class, gross enrollment ratios (the participation rate for the cohort between 18-24 years of age) in postsecondary education have m
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON HIGHER EDUCATION VOLUME 37 Series Editors: Philip G. Altbach, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Hans de Wit, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Laura E. Rumbley, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Scope: Higher education worldwide is in a period of transition, affected by globalization, the advent of mass access, changing relationships between the university and the state, and the new technologies, among others. Global Perspectives on Higher Education provides cogent analysis and comparative perspectives on these and other central issues affecting postsecondary education worldwide. This series is co-published with the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College.
Responding to Massification Differentiation in Postsecondary Education Worldwide
Edited by Philip G. Altbach Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Liz Reisberg Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA and Hans de Wit Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword Horst Hippler, Dieter Lenzen and Lothar Dittmer
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About the sponsors
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1. The necessity and reality of differentiated postsecondary systems Philip G. Altbach 2.
iversification and differentiation in postsecondary education: D What the research shows Lisa Unangst
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Africa 3.
ifferentiated postsecondary systems and the role of the university: D The case of Egypt Mohsen Elmahdy Said
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Differentiation within the postsecondary education sector in Ghana George Afeti
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Asia & Australasia 5.
I nstitutional differentiation in Australian postsecondary education: Hit and miss Leo Goedegebuure, Ruth Schubert and Peter Bentley
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6. A differentiated postsecondary education system in mainland China Qi Wang
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India’s growth of postsecondary education: Scale, speed and fault lines Pawan Agarwal
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8. T he consequences of market-based mass postsecondary education: Japa
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