Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy

by Guruz, Kemal

• ISBN13: 9781438435695
• ISBN10: 143843569X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Second, updated edition of a landmark study of how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs and institutions of higher education has evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today's global knowledge economy.

Author Biography

Kemal Grz is Former President of the Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey and retired Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University. In 2006, he was the first recipient of the Chancellor John W. Ryan Fellowship in International Education at the State University of New York.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Foreword	p. xix
Preface to the Revised and Updated Second Edition	p. xxi
The Global Knowledge Economy and Higher Education	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Globalization and the Knowledge Economy	p. 3
The Industrial Society	p. 3
Transformation to the Knowledge Society and the Global Knowledge Economy	p. 5
The Global Higher Education Agenda	p. 18
Enrollment and Increasing Demand	p. 25
Increasing Demand	p. 25
Demographic Shift and Nontraditional Students	p. 37
Increasing Demand and International Student Mobility	p. 39
The Rise of Market Forces	p. 41
Historical Background	p. 41
Public Spending and Tuition Fees	p. 43
Private Institutions	p. 54
Changing Patterns of Governance	p. 63
Historical Background	p. 63
The State, the Academia, and the Society as Actors in Governance	p. 67
Transformation from the Regulatory to the Evaluative State	p. 70
Spread of Lay Governance, Strengthened Institutional Leadership, and a Redefinition of Autonomy	p. 82
The Rise of Market Forces in Relation to International Student Mobility	p. 98
New Providers of Higher Education	p. 101
Introduction	p. 101
Impact of Technology	p. 102
Impact of Technology on Traditional Institutions	p. 106
Distributed Learning	p. 106
Virtual Arms and Unbundling of Services in Traditional Institutions	p. 109
Types of New Providers	p. 115
Consortia and Networks	p. 115
For-Profit Higher Education	p. 118
Virtual Universities	p. 125
Corporate Universities	p. 127
Certificate Programs	p. 128
Museums, Libraries, Publishers, and Media Enterprises	p. 130
Academic Brokers	p. 130
Franchises and Branch Campuses	p. 132
The Global Higher Education Market	p. 145
Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education	p. 149
Historical Antecedents	p. 149
International Academic Mobility in the Greco-Roman and the Muslim Worlds	p. 149
International Academic Mobility in Medieval Times	p. 152
International Academic Mobility: 1500-1800	p. 155
The Birth of the Napoleonic University and the German Research University	p. 159
International Academic Mobility in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	p. 162
The Emergence of Modern American Higher Education	p. 164
Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education since 1950	p. 169
Definition of Terms	p. 172
Globalization and Internationalization	p. 172
Rationales for Internationalization of Higher Education	p. 175
The European Response: The Bologna Process	p. 180
Chronological Background	p. 180
An Evaluation of the Bologna Process	p. 183
GATS: A "Commercial/Anglo-Saxon Response"	p. 189
Quality Assurance in Transnational Higher Education: "Multinational Organizational Responses"	p. 194
The Global Higher Education Agenda and International Student Mobility	p. 198
International Student Mobility	p. 201
The Global Picture Today	p. 201
Major Host Countries	p. 212
United States
Enrollment Statistics	p. 212
Evaluation of Internationalization Policies of the United States	p. 236
United Kingdom	p. 242
Germany	p. 249
France	p. 255
Australia	p. 262
Other Major and Emerging Host Countries: Japan, Russia, Canada, and New Zealand	p. 267
Japan	p. 267
Russia	p. 273
Canada	p. 275
New Zealand	p. 280
Major Countries of Origin of Foreign Students	p. 285
China: A Major Source Country and an Emerging Major Host Country	p. 285
India	p. 289
Other Major Countries of Origin	p. 291
Regional Breakdown of International Student Mobility	p. 310
International Student Mobility and International Migration	p. 313
Concluding Remarks	p. 317
Data on Enrollment and Expenditures in National Systems and International Student Mobility	p. 325
Definition of Terms Related to Evaluation and Quality Assurance	p. 343
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation and the Diploma Supplement	p. 345
Recognition of Qualifications in Europe	p. 349
Education, Training, and Youth Programs of the European Union	p. 353
Definitions of Foreign Students	p. 357
General Agreement on Trade in Services	p. 361
Notes	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 387
Index	p. 413
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