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Higher education and international student mobility in the global knowledge economy /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Global Knowledge Economy and Higher Education
- Introduction
- Globalization and the knowledge economy
- The industrial society
- Transformation to the knowledge society and the global knowledge economy
- The global higher education agenda
- Enrollment and Increasing Demand
- Increasing demand
- Demographic shift and nontraditional students
- Increasing demand and international student mobility
- The Rise of Market Forces
- Historical background
- Public spending and tuition fees
- Private institutions
- Changing patterns of governance
- Historical background
- The state, the academia, and the society as actors in governance
- Transformation from the regulatory to the evaluative state
- Spread of lay governance, strengthened institutional leadership, and a redefinition of autonomy
- The rise of market forces in relation to international student mobility
- New Providers of Higher Education
- Introduction
- Impact of technology
- Impact of technology on traditional institutions
- Distributed learning
- Virtual arms and unbundling of services in traditional institutions
- Types of new providers
- Consortia and networks
- For-profit higher education
- Virtual universities
- Corporate universities
- Certificate programs
- Museums, libraries, publishers, and media enterprises
- Academic brokers
- Franchises and branch campuses
- The global higher education market
- Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education
- Historical antecedents
- International academic mobility in the Greco-Roman and the Muslim worlds
- International academic mobility in medieval times
- International academic mobility: 1500-1800
- The birth of the Napoleonic university and the German research university
- International academic mobility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The emergence of the modern American university
- Globalization and internationalization of higher education since 1950
- Definition of terms
- Globalization and internationalization
- Rationales for internationalization of higher education
- The European response: the Bologna process
- Chronological background
- An evaluation of the Bologna process
- GATS: a "commercial/Anglo-Saxon response"
- Quality assurance in transnational higher education: "multinational organizational responses"
- The global higher education agenda and international student mobility
- International Student Mobility
- The global picture today
- Major host countries
- United States of America
- Enrollment statistics
- An evaluation of internationalization politics of the United States
- The United Kingdom
- Germany
- France
- Australia
- Other major and emerging host countries
- Japan
- Russia
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Major countries of origin of foreign students
- China: a major source country and an emerging major host country
- India
- Other major countries of origin
- Regional breakdown of international student mobility
- International student mobility and international migration
- Concluding remarks
- Appendix A: Data on enrollment and expenditures in national systems and international student mobility
- Appendix B: Definition of terms related to evaluation and quality assurance
- Appendix C: The European credit transfer and accumulation system and the diploma supplement
- Appendix D: Recognition of qualifications in Europe
- Appendix E: Education, training, and youth programs of the European Union
- Appendix F: Definitions of foreign students
- Appendix G: General agreement on trade in services.