Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education by Roger King, Simon Marginson, Rajani Naidoo. Title Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition.

Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, Hardcover by King, Roger (EDT); Marginson, Simon (EDT); Naidoo, Rajani (EDT), ISBN 1848445857, ISBN-13 9781848445857, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Scholars mostly of education, but also politics and public policy, assemble a broad guide to higher education in a globalized world, fighting valiantly to avoid a Western bias. Among the topics are the university as a global institution, extra-national provision, the contradiction of external evaluation in South African higher education reform, the invisible topics on the public agenda for higher education in Argentina, strategizing and ordering the global, and measuring world-class excellence and the global obsession with rankings. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()