International Organizations and Higher Education Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

by Bassett; Roberta Malee

• ISBN13: 9780415990431
• ISBN10: 0415990432
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

International Organizations and Higher Education Policy critically analyzes the impact influential organizations have at different levels of higher education policy development and implementation.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
International Organizations and the Field of Higher Education	p. 7
Higher Education: An Emerging Field of Research and Policy	p. 9
Multilateral Organizations: The Internal and External Voices	p. 27
UNESCO: The World's Reference Point for Change in Higher Education	p. 29
UNESCO and Higher Education: Opportunity or Impasse?	p. 46
OECD Work on the Internationalization of Higher Education: An Insider Perspective	p. 64
The OECD and its Influence in Higher Education: A Critical Revision	p. 82
Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Role of the World Bank	p. 99
Market Multilateralism, the World Bank Group, and the Asymmetries of Globalizing Higher Education: Toward a Critical Political Economy Analysis	p. 113
GATS and Education Services: Current Commitments and Future Prospects	p. 132
Regional Actors: Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America	p. 153
Higher Education in Africa: The Dynamics of International Partnerships and Interventions	p. 155
International Organizations and Asian Higher Education: The Case of China	p. 174
European Multinational Regimes and Higher Education Policy	p. 192
International Organizations in Latin American Higher Education: Projects and Contradictions in the Post-World War II and Post-Washington Consensus Era	p. 212
International Aid and Higher Education	p. 229
American Foundations and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Shifting Rationales and Strategies for Support	p. 231
Higher Education, Donor Organizations, Nation States, and Development: The Public Donor Dimension in Africa	p. 251
International Organizations and Bilateral Aid: National Interests and Transnational Agendas	p. 279
List of Contributors	p. 300
Index	p. 307
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