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The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52869-8

ISBN: 978-1-137-57857-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Jul 21, 2016

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The Postwar Boom: The Universalization of Higher Education

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Pages: 1 –65

[This chapter provides a broad overview of the postwar boom in higher education in different world regions. First, it examines the explosive growth in the number of higher education institutions in every world region. Second, it chronicles and compares the patterns of growth in student...
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Money Matters: Economic and Occupational Disruptions

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Pages: 67 –137

[The explosion of higher education institutions examined in the last chapter was accompanied by drastic changes in their institutional mix, financing models, connections to the labor market and student expectations and politics. This chapter begins by exploring the growing privatization of higher...
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Disciplining Knowledges: Ruptures in Academic Systems

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Pages: 139 –211

[The expansion of higher education after World War II was accompanied by massive transformations in the systems of knowledge production, dissemination, and organization. The geographies, hierarchies, and institutional dynamics of knowledge production shifted quite considerably between 1945 and...
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Global Village: The Competitive Challenges of Internationalization

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Pages: 213 –295

[This chapter seeks to provide a broad overview of higher education internationalization since World War II. It begins by examining the contemporary dynamics behind the growth of internationalization in higher education. Then it explores the development and changes in the dominant institutional...
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Quality Control: Struggles for Accountability and Value

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe

Pages: 297 –367

[Higher education was increasingly confronted by several interrelated anxieties, about the apparent diminishing “return on investment” of university degrees, the mismatch between the quality of graduates and needs of employers, the downward slide from elitism to massification, and the...

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