Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures and tables......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
PART I GENERIC......Page 19
1 Introduction to Part I......Page 21
2 Imagining the global......Page 28
3 Rethinking development: higher education and the new imperialism......Page 58
4 The university as a global institution......Page 77
5 Three forms of the knowledge economy: learning, creativity and openness......Page 94
6 Global institutions: the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development......Page 113
7 Extra-national provision......Page 132
8 Global institutions, higher education and development......Page 147
9 Globalization, higher education and inequalities: problems and prospects......Page 166
PART II CASE STUDIES......Page 187
10 Introduction to Part II......Page 189
11 Regional responses to globalization challenges: the assertion of soft power and changing university governance in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia......Page 197
12 Global ‘toolboxes’, local ‘toolmaking’: the contradictions of external evaluation in South African higher education reform......Page 215
13 Globalization and higher education in Canada......Page 240
14 Globalization, internationalization and the world-class university movement: the China experience......Page 259
15 European higher education and the process of integration......Page 274
16 Neoliberal globalization and higher education policy in India......Page 291
17 Globalization and higher education in South Korea: towards ethnocentric internationalization or global commercialization of higher education?......Page 304
18 The invisible topics on the public agenda for higher education in Argentina......Page 324
19 Globalization, a knowledge-based regime and higher education: where do Mexican universities stand?......Page 342
20 Globalization in the USA: the case of California......Page 362
21 The strange death of the liberal university: research assessments and the impact of research......Page 378
PART III GLOBAL GOVERNANCE......Page 403
22 Introduction to Part III......Page 405
23 Strategizing and ordering the global......Page 412
24 Governing knowledge globally: science, structuration and the open society......Page 433
25 Governing quality......Page 456
26 Convergences and divergences in steering higher education systems......Page 472
27 The Bologna Process: from the national to the regional to the global, and back......Page 487
28 The standardization of higher education, positional competition and the global labor market......Page 503
29 Measuring world- class excellence and the global obsession with rankings......Page 515
Index......Page 535