Download e-book for kindle: Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong by Maria Slowey,Hans Schuetze

The worldwide enlargement of participation premiums in greater schooling proceed roughly unabated. in spite of the fact that, whereas the concept that of lifelong learning has figured prominently in nationwide and overseas academic coverage discourse for greater than 3 a long time, its implications for the sector of upper schooling has remained rather underdeveloped.

This e-book specializes in a selected measurement of the lifelong studying: greater schooling when you haven't stepped forward at once from university to better schooling. a few will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature scholars, part-time and/or distance scholars; others desire to go back to raised schooling after having accomplished (or no longer accomplished) a prior educational programme, whereas expanding numbers perform postgraduate and carrying on with reports for a fancy mixture of expert and private reasons.

Adopting a comparative and foreign longitudinal standpoint which fits past a picture view by way of construction at the instances of a middle workforce of ten OECD international locations, this well timed booklet investigates the ways that vital new advancements impacting on greater schooling crystallise round the lifelong studying agenda:

• new know-how and open resource resources;


• the altering position of the kingdom and industry in larger education;


• the blurring of private and non-private boundaries;


• issues of fairness and entry in a time of worldwide monetary turmoil;


• the elevated emphasis on study and overseas league tables;


• the altering nature of the schooling; and,


• the complicated interplay of overseas, nationwide and nearby expectancies which governments and different stakeholders have of universities and different private and non-private associations of upper education.

While targeting the location in Canada, united states, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a large choice of ecu nations, the booklet additionally assesses the problems from the point of view of constructing countries.

Launched by means of the Irish Minister of schooling, this well timed ebook is a needs to learn. discover extra right here: http://www4.dcu.ie/ovpli/herc/book_launch