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Handbook on globalization and higher education

King, Roger (contributor); Naidoo, Rajani (contributor); … - 2011

Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher...

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Higher education in a global society

Johnstone, Donald Bruce (contributor); … - 2010

force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines …1. The significance of globalization to American higher education / D. Bruce Johnstone -- 2. The realities of mass … higher education in a globalized world / Phillip G. Altbach -- 3. Higher education crossing borders : programs and providers …

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Education and economic performance

Wolf, Alison - 2011

Lant Pritchett (2001), 'Where Has All the Education Gone?', World Bank Economic Review, 15 (3), 367-91 -- Anna Vignoles …Middleton, J. (1989), Vocational Education and Training: A Review of World Bank Investment, Washington, DC: World Bank … Methods, Washington, DC: World Bank. -- Scott, M.F. (1998), A New View of Economic Growth, Oxford: Oxford University Press …

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Knowledge policy : challenges for the 21st century

Hearn, Greg (ed.); Rooney, David (ed.) - 2008

Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and...

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