Higher Education, Policy, and the Global Competition Phenomenon

1. Mapping the Terrain: The Global Competition Phenomenon in Higher Education
Laura M. Portnoi, Sylvia S. Bagley, Val D. Rust

2. Higher Education Responds to Global Economic Dynamics
Lynn Ilon

3. Global Comparisons and the University Knowledge Economy
Simon Marginson

4. Accounting for Excellence: Transforming Universities into Organizational Actors
Francisco O. Ramirez

5. Quality Assurance and Global Competitiveness in Higher Education
Isaac Ntshoe, Moeketsi Letseka

6. Quality-Oriented Management of Higher Education in Argentina
Héctor R. Gertel, Alejandro D. Jacobo

7. The Tension Between Profit and Quality: Private Higher Education in Oman
Hana Ameen, David W. Chapman, Thuwayba Al-Barwani

8. Surviving Austerity: Kenya’s Public Universities and the Competition for Financial Resources
Gerald Wangenge-Ouma

9. Global Competition, Local Implications: Higher Education Development in the United Arab Emirates
Daniel Kirk, Diane Brook Napier

10. Global Competition as a Two-Edged Sword: Vietnam Higher Education Policy
Diane E. Oliver, Kim Dung Nguyen

11. Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Global Knowledge System
Anthony Welch

12. China’s Drive for World-Class Universities
Kathryn Mohrman, Yingjie Wang

13. Global Competition and Higher Education in Tanzania
Ashley Shuyler, Frances Vavrus

14. Soft Power Strategies: Competition and Cooperation in a Globalized System of Higher Education
Joseph Stetar, Colleen Coppla, Li Guo, Naila Nabiyeva, Baktybek Ismailov

15. Internationalization and the Competitiveness Agenda
Jane Knight

16. Global Competition in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Policies, Rationales, and Practices in Australia and Europe
Hans Wit, Tony Adams

17. Student Mobility and Emerging Hubs in Global Higher Education
Robin Shields, Rebecca M. Edwards

Avainsanat: Education, International and Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Educational Philosophy, Structural Geology, Higher Education