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9780415354912

Understanding Mass Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Access

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415354912

  • ISBN10:

    0415354919

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-12-23
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Summary

This books takes a comparative look at the ways in which most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass education. While keeping the global economic context in mind, it focuses on different national traditions and experiences of this phenomenon, addressing a key range of questions about the expanion and fiversification of higher education.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Contributors xii
1 The rise of mass higher education
1(5)
TED TAPPER AND DAVID PALFREYMAN
2 Values, discourse and politics: an Australian comparative perspective
6(22)
CHRIS DUKE
3 The politics of access to higher education in France
28(23)
CÉCILE DEER
4 Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education
51(25)
HANNA OSTERMANN
5 The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate
76(16)
SIMONETTA MICHELOTTI
6 Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends
92(29)
FRANS KAISER AND HANS VOSSENSTEYN
7 Access to higher education in the Nordic countries
121(18)
PER OLAF AAMODT AND SVEIN KYVIK
8 Mass higher education in Poland: coping with the 'Spanish Collar'
139(21)
CLARE McMANUS-CZUBINSKA
9 British higher education and the prism of devolution
160(30)
GARETH PARRY
10 Access to higher education in England: who is in control? 190(21)
TED TAPPER
11 A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America's path towards access and equity in higher education 211(36)
JOHN DOUGLASS
12 Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education 247(15)
TED TAPPER AND DAVID PALFREYMAN
Index 262

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