A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Nair, Chenicheri Sid; Shah, Mahsood

Publisher: Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

Provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade
Presents the significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education
Brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,Editors’ biography,Contributors’ biography,PrefaceEntitled to full text1 - The issue of contractible quality, quality assurance, and information asymmetries in higher education, Pages 1-11
2 - What role for private higher education in Europe? Reflecting about current patterns and future prospects, Pages 13-28
3 - Private higher education in Italy, Pages 29-51
4 - From growth to decline? Demand-absorbing private higher education when demand is over, Pages 53-79
5 - Privately funded higher education providers in the UK: The changing dynamic of the higher education sector, Pages 81-95
6 - The evolution of a new hybrid organizational form in Chinese higher education: An institutionalist analysis, Pages 97-111
7 - A great leap forward: Changes and challenges for private higher education in Hong Kong, Pages 113-129
8 - Private higher education institutions in Malaysia, Pages 131-155
9 - Privatization in higher education in India: A reflection of issues, Pages 157-168
10 - Policy and regulation of Australian private higher education, Pages 169-188
11 - Private higher education and graduate employability in Saudi Arabia, Pages 189-204
12 - The obstacles and challenges of private education in the Sultanate of Oman, Pages 205-217
13 - The rise of private higher education in Kurdistan, Pages 219-228
14 - The new state of private universities in Latin America, Pages 229-253
15 - Trends in private higher education: The case of Kenya, Pages 255-269
16 - Private universities in Nigeria: Prevalence, course offerings, cost, and manpower development, Pages 271-286
17 - Quality and accreditation of private higher education in Ghana, Pages 287-297
18 - The gainful employment rule and for-profit higher education in the United States, Pages 299-312
19 - Higher education: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, Pages 313-328
Index, Pages 329-341

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