Understanding Mass Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Perspectives on Access
Redaktion: Palfreyman, David; Tapper, Ted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This books takes a comparative look at the ways in which most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass education. While keeping the global economic context in mind, it focuses on different national traditions and experiences of this phenomenon, addressing a key range of questions about the expanion and fiversification of higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134256440
• Artikelnr.: 42641162

Autorenporträt

Palfreyman, David; Tapper, Ted

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
1. The rise of mass higher education
2. Values
discourse and politics: an Australian comparative perspective
3. The politics of access to higher education in France
4. Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education
5. The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate
6. Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends
7. Access to higher education in the Nordic countries
8. Mass higher education in Poland: coping with the 'Spanish Collar'
9. British higher education and the prism of devolution
10. Access to higher education in England: who is in control?
11. A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America's path towards access and equity in higher education
12. Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education
Index