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A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education
This comprehensive guide brings together the trends relating to the growth and decline of private higher education providers, also highlighting and discussing the key contributing factors relating to these changes from 17 countries across all continents
Mahsood Shah (Edited by), Chenicheri Sid Nair (Edited by)
9780081008720, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 22 March 2016
370 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.41 kg
A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education, including government policy and its impact on the ongoing growth of the sector. The title brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers, also including the key contributing factors of the changes from 17 countries.
Preface 1. Europe From Growth to Decline? Demand-Absorbing Private Higher Education when Demand is Over 2. UK Privately-funded higher education providers in the UK: the changing dynamic of ‘the HE sector’ 3. Uruguay The new state of private universities in Latin America 4. China The Evolution of a New Hybrid Organizational Form in Chinese Higher Education: An Institutionalist Analysis 5. Italy Private higher education in Italy 6. Europe What role for Private Higher Education in Europe? 7. Reflecting about Current Patterns and Future Prospects 8. Hong Kong A Great Leap Forward: Changes and Challenges for Private Higher Education in Hong Kong 9. Oman The Obstacles and Challenges of Private Education in the Sultanate of Oman 10. Kurdistan The Rise of Private Higher Education in Kurdistan 11. India Privatization in Higher Education in India - A reflection of issues 12. Kenya Trends in Private Higher Education: The Case of Kenya 13. Nigeria Private Universities in Nigeria: Prevalence, Course Offerings, Cost and Manpower Development 14. Malaysia Private Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia 15. Australia Policy and Regulation of Australian Private Higher Education 16. Australia The issue of contractible quality, quality assurance and information asymmetries in higher education 17. Ghana Quality and Accreditation of Private Higher Education in Ghana 18. Saudi Arabia Private Higher Education and Graduate employability in Saudi Arabia 19. USA The Gainful Employment Rule and For-Profit Higher Education in the United States
Subject Areas: Higher & further education, tertiary education [JNM]
