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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).

PART 1 MAPPING INEQUALITIES CONCEPTUALLY
Educating the Other: Standpoint and Theory on the 'Internationalisation' of Higher Education
Global Learning in a Neo-liberal Age: Implications for Development
Equality and Equity in Higher Education Pedagogies in the Context of Globalisation
PART 2: SOME DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITIES
Global Rankings of Universities: A Perverse and Present Burden
Public-private Substitution in Higher Education Funding and Kondratiev Cycles: The Impact on Home and International Students
The inter-relationship of Employment, Marriage and Higher Education Among Pakistani Students in the UK
Globalisation Perspectives and Cultural Exclusion in Mexican Higher Education
PART 3 STRUGGLING FOR EQUALITY
Pedagogy for Rich Human Being-ness in Global Times
Tackling Inequality Through Quality: A Comparative Case Study Exploring University Teachers' Views
Development Education, Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Higher Education: Towards a Transformatory Approach to Learning
Globalisation and the Professional Ethic of the Professoriat

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