Wildavsky The Great Brain Race

How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
With a New preface by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4200-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 64, 272 Seiten

Reihe: The William G. Bowen Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wildavsky, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduct ion: What Is Global Higher Education--and Why Does It Matter? 1

Chapter One The Worldwide Race for Talent 14

Chapter Two: Branching Out 42

Chapter Three: Wanted: World-Class Universities 70

Chapter Four: College Rankings Go Global 100

Chapter Five: For-Profits on the Move 141

Chapter Six: Free Trade in Minds 167

Afterword 194

Notes 199

Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Wildavsky is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the award-winning author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections (Princeton) and the coeditor of Reinventing Higher Education and Measuring Success. The host and coproducer of the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast, he has written for leading publications such as the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.