Ben Wildavsky

Great Brain Race (eBook, ePUB)

How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How global competition for the brightest minds is changing higher education

In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to more people than ever before.

Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion. But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically. In a new preface, Wildavsky discusses some of the notable developments in global higher education since the book was first published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400842001
• Artikelnr.: 56998334

Autorenporträt

Ben Wildavsky is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the award-winning author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections (Princeton) and the coeditor of Reinventing Higher Education and Measuring Success. The host and coproducer of the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast, he has written for leading publications such as the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.