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VINCENT CARPENTIER is a lecturer in History of Education in the Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education, University of London. He is the course leader for the MA in Higher and Professional Education. He is also a co-editor of the London Review of Education. Vincent's research examines the historical links between education and economic systems. He has recently completed an ESRC-funded research project. The research aimed at providing a long-term insight into the mechanisms between funding, widening access and economic aspects on higher education in order to contribute to contemporary debates in the UK and France. He conducts his academic work in both French and English and the results of his interdisciplinary research have been published in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.
ELAINE UNTERHALTER contributes to teaching on post graduate courses in education and international development at the Institute of Education. She specialises in gender, education and development and is currently leading two research projects with this focus, one funded by the ESRC and one by ActionAid. She has extensive experience of editing collections of papers and journals. Her most recent edited collections are published by Palgrave (with Melanie Walker, 2007, Amartya Sens capability approach and social justice in education) and with Oxfam with Sheila Aikman. 2005, Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education). She is one of the co-editors of the journal Theory and Research in Education. (published by sage).

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Whose Interests are We Serving? Global Inequalities and Higher Education	p. 1
Mapping Inequalities Conceptually
Educating the Other: Standpoint and Theory in the 'Internationalization' of Higher Education	p. 43
Global Learning in a NeoLiberal Age: Implications for Development	p. 66
Considering Equality, Equity and Higher Education Pedagogies in the Context of Globalization	p. 91
Some Dimensions of Inequalities
Global Rankings of Universities: A Perverse and Present Burden	p. 117
Public-Private Substitution in Higher Education Funding and Kondratiev Cycles: The Impacts on Home and International Students	p. 142
The Inter-Relationship of Employment, Marriage and Higher Education among Pakistani Students in the UK	p. 172
Globalization Perspectives and Cultural Exclusion in Mexican Higher Education	p. 197
Struggling for Equality
Pedagogy for Rich Human Being-ness in Global Times	p. 219
Tackling Inequality Through Quality: A Comparative Case Study Using Bernsteinian Concepts	p. 241
Development Education, Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Higher Education: Towards a Transformatory Approach to Learning	p. 268
Globalization and the Professional Ethic of the Professoriat	p. 287
Index	p. 312
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