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Higher education in the developing world : changing contexts and institutional responses

Author: David W Chapman; Ann E Austin
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Series: Greenwood studies in higher education.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David W Chapman; Ann E Austin
ISBN: 0313320160 9780313320163
OCLC Number: 48170895
Description: viii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. Introduction and overview --
1. The changing context of higher education in the developing world / David W. Chapman and Ann E. Austin --
2. Higher education at a turning point / Jamil Salmi --
II. Seeking a new balance in government-university relationships --
3. Universities in transition: privatization, decentralization, and institutional autonomy as national policy with special reference to the Russian Federation / D. Bruce Johnstone and Olga Bain --
4. Flight from freedom: resistance to institutional autonomy in Brazil's federal universities / David N. Plank and Robert E. Verhine --
5. When goals collide: higher education in Laos / David W. Chapman --
III. Coping with the challenges of greater autonomy --
6. Current challenges and future possibilities for the revitalization of higher education in Africa / Jairam Reddy --
7. Higher education and the State in Mongolia: dilemmas of democratic transition / John C. Weidman and Regsurengiin Bat-Erdene --
8. Chinese higher education for the twenty-first century: expansion, consolidation, and globalization / Gerard E. Postiglione --
IV. Achieving equity while managing expansion --
9. Equity effects of higher education in developing countries: access, choice and persistence / Darrell R. Lewis and Halil Dundar --
V. New pressures and forms of accountability --
10. Quality assurance for higher education: shaping effective policy in developing countries / Elaine El-Khawas --
VI. Supporting academic staff in new roles --
11. Context for higher education reform in China: an analysis of faculty issues / Yvonna S. Lincoln, Bryan R. Cole, Wang Xiaoping, Yang "Sherry" Xiaobo --
12. Academic staff in times of transformation: roles, challenges and professional development needs / Ann E. Austin --
VII. Conclusion, lessons and directions --
13. Balancing pressures, forming partnerships / Ann E. Austin and David W. Chapman.
Series Title: Greenwood studies in higher education.
Responsibility: edited by David W. Chapman and Ann E. Austin.

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