Higher Education Across Nations (2 Vols-Set)
Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. An introduction to higher education in Canada/Glen A. Jones. 2. University education in argentina: the lack of a systemic global plan/Marcelo Rabossi. 3. Overview and tendencies of higher education in contemporary Brazil/Georgina Goncalves dos Santos, Paulo Speller and Sonia Maria Rocha Sampaio. 4. Systems of higher education and research in the Maghreb region/Ahmed Ghouati. 5. The structure and characteristics of higher education in Greece: 1990-2010 reforms/Stamelos Georgios. 6. French higher education/Saeed Paivandi.
Vol. II: 7. Higher education in Germany/Dirk Michel Schertges and Claudia Schertges. 8. The structure and characteristics of higher education in Japan: 1990-2010 reforms/Tatsuya Natsume. 9. Higher education in China/Wenqin Shen and Kai Jiang. 10. Higher education in India: reflections on changing landscape/K.M. Joshi and Kinjal V. Ahir. 11. Knowledge for development: an overview of higher education in Bangladesh/Mobasser Monem and Hasan Muhammad Baniamin. 12. South Africa: transition from apartheid to Democracy/Kirti Menon and Ahmed Shaikjee.
The book ‘Higher Education Across Nations provides an original and broad look at higher education system across twelve countries. It contributes to comparative higher education literature through its chapters on Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Maghreb region Tunisia Morocco and Algeria, Greece, France, Germany, Japan, China, India, Bangladesh and South Africa. In backdrop and milieu of these countries the book focuses on the history of higher education, organization of higher education, contemporary status of higher education, provision of enrolment, type and number of institutions etc. Besides these themes, the chapters also deem equity, quality assurance, financing and governance issues. The heterogeneity of higher education across these nations in retrospect and growing homogeneity as reflected through private participation or similar partially differentiated policies makes this volume interesting for research scholars, policy makers and higher education administrators. (jacket)
