Description: Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.
Brief description: ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at the University of London, UK.
Review Quotes:
"A strong feature ofthe book is that it is timely and fresh. The editors have done much work to connect to sensibilities of the global recession and the emerging effects in higher education and the developing world." - Dr Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne