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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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Wealth, welfare and sustainability : advances in measuring sustainable development

Hamilton, Kirk - 2006

This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth,...

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Handbook of sustainable development

Neumayer, Eric (contributor); Atkinson, Giles (contributor); … - 2007

This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be achieved. Twenty years on from the publication of the seminal Brundtland Report, it has become clear that formidable challenges confront policy...

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Governing universities globally : organizations, regulation and rankings

King, Roger - 2009

The comprehensive coverage of global university governance includes conceptual, theoretical and empirical analyses that will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners. Global governance analysts, global business and...

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The globalization of higher education

King, Roger - 2013

Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. -- Braudel, F. (1985), 'The Perspective of the World', in Civilization … World', Tertiary Education and Management, 10 (1), March, 3-25 -- Philip G. Altbach (2003), 'Centers and Peripheries in the … the Third World, Chapter 1, New York, NY and Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-21 -- Eric Beerkens and Marijk …

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