Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book … tide of marketization in shaping and developing their education policies. The authors discuss the way in which increasingly … management of education in these two Asian economies. They aim to identify and examine the crucial socio-historical, socio …

will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners …

Higher education is beginning to play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization, which promotes … covered include the economic benefits of higher education, student choice of subject and university, the technology of higher … education, empirical research on the cost functions faced by universities, the funding and financing of university education …

. Similarly, policymakers and higher education commentators need the space and stimulus to reflect on the role of universities …

Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search … worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and …