The world is flattening: Higher education in comparative perspective

Friday 17th October, 11am-noon

Abstract
Higher education, once the preserve of the elite, has become increasingly universal as nations everywhere realized that knowledge workers were needed to compete in the global economy.  Borrowing from the American model, public universities expanded to meet the demand. In recent years, however, the norms and forms of the market have become increasingly important. Tuition has increased, competition for students and professors has gone international, for-profit universities enroll an ever-growing number of students.  How, for good and bad, are these changes affecting higher education?  Reference: Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard 2003).
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