How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education: Influences and Responses

✍ Scribed by Ying Cheng, Qi Wang, Nian Cai Liu (eds.)

Publisher: SensePublishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 203
Series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education 26
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
A New Push in French Excellence....Pages 13-24
Context and First Observations on the “Investment Programme for the Future” in France....Pages 25-30
Promoting Research Excellence....Pages 31-46
Top Down Push For Excellence....Pages 47-63
The Korean Government’s Policies and Strategies to Foster World-Class Universities....Pages 65-83
Continuity and Transformation....Pages 85-101
Reflections on the Effects of the 985 Project in Mainland China....Pages 103-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Privatization, the State, and the Transformation of World-Class Research Universities....Pages 117-136
On Mergers and Missions....Pages 137-151
Too Small to Succeed....Pages 153-161
What Matters in Global Outreach?....Pages 163-175
Global Competition among Research Universities....Pages 177-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-203

✦ Subjects

Education (general)

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