Overview
- Uniquely combines scholarly perspectives with an international set of descriptions and analyses
- Provides a unique "one stop" resource for the latest trends and developments in higher education worldwide
- Nineteen thematic chapters in Volume I deal with academic freedom, university governance and management, European integration, quality and assessment, teaching, student political activism, scientific research, private institutions, technology and other contemporary events
- Thirty-six chapters in Volume II provide basic statistical data and cover the development of a nation's universities and their role in society, student and faculty issues, university-government relations, and other contemporary concerns
- The analysis in these chapters is unique
Part of the book series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE, volume 18)
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Table of contents (55 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Themes and Contemporary Challenges
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About this book
This publication provides a central, authoritative reference source on the most essential topics of higher education. The International Handbook of Higher Education combines a rich diversity of scholarly perspectives with a wide range of internationally derived descriptions and analyses. Chapters in the first volume cover central themes in the study of higher education, while contributors to the second volume focus on contemporary higher education issues within specific countries or regions. Together, these volumes provide a centralized, easily accessible, yet scholarly source of information.
Research scholars and graduate level students in higher education and related fields will find the Handbook useful for advancing their exploration of these central issues, while policymakers and academic administrators will find the thoughtful essays on a particular topic useful for decision-making. Overall, this Handbook provides a centralized collection of scholarship on an essential worldwide social institution.
Reviews
".. The volume is indeed very rich with in-depth, scholarly and analytical contributions made by as many as 50 serious researchers to various aspects of higher education. The empirical insights the various contributors provide are valuable and educational planners and researchers would find the handbook immensely useful."
Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, volume XXI, no. 1, January 2007
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Part One: Global Themes and Contemporary Challenges, Part Two: Regions and Countries
Editors: James J. F. Forest, Philip G. Altbach
Series Title: Springer International Handbooks of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4012-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4011-5Published: 20 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0562-3Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4012-2Published: 18 January 2008
Series ISSN: 2197-1951
Series E-ISSN: 2197-196X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 1136
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education