Table of Contents

Preface
Figures and Tables
Introduction
1. Higher education in fast moving times: Larger, steeper, more global and more contested, Simon Marginson, Claire Callender and William Locke
2. Visions of higher education futures: The shape of things to come? William Locke
Part I: Global Factors in Higher Education
3. The world research system: Expansion, diversification, network and hierarchy, Simon Marginson
4. International students in UK: Global mobility versus national migration politics, Simon Marginson
5. Feeling the Brexit shock: European connectedness and the existential crisis in UK higher education, Simon Marginson, Vassiliki Papatsiba, Xin Xu
Part II: Financing and Widening Participation
6. Global higher education financing: The income contingent loans revolution, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Dung Doan
7. Student loan debt: Longer term implications for graduates in the United States and England, Claire Callender, KC Deane, Ariane de Gayardon and Stephen L. DesJardins
8. Widening participation in the UK: The possibilities and the limits, Vikki Boliver, Stephen Gorard and Nadia Siddiqu
Part III: Teaching and Learning
9. Teaching excellence: Principles for developing effective system-wide approaches, Paul Ashwin
10. Assessment for social justice: Achievement, uncertainty and recognition, Jan McArthur
11. MOOCs and professional development: The global potential of online collaboration, Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy
Part IV: Graduates and Work
12. Graduate employment and under-employment: Trends and prospects in high participation systems of higher education, Francis Green and Golo Henseke
Part V: Institutions and Markets
13. Commodifying higher education: The proliferation of devices for making markets, Janja Komeljenovic
14. The new private sector in England: Can subsidised colleges break into the mainstream? Stephen A. Hunt and Vikki Boliver
Part VI: Public and Social Benefit
15. Undergraduate education in South Africa: To what extent does it support personal and public good? Paul Ashwin and Jennifer M. Case
16. Higher education in China: Rethinking it as a common good, Lin Tian and Nian C. Liu
17. Public and common goods: Key concepts in mapping the contributions of higher education, Simon Marginson

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Explores higher education, looking at its forms, cost, value for graduates and community, and effects on social equality.

About the Author

Claire Callender OBE is Professor of Higher Education at Birkbeck University, UK, and at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK where she is Deputy Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education.


William Locke is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK.

Reviews

Higher education researchers will approach this book with keen anticipation ... The consistency of these accounts is a tribute to editorial control and direction, as well as the excellence of the contributors ... a major contribution to our research-based understanding of higher education policy and practice.
*Higher Education*

A vivid snapshot of higher education development in a world during the surge of populism and before the pandemic. It serves extremely well as a timely awakening. Its themes, contents and contributing authors from the research team reminds us of the pressing need for our concerted efforts in defending further integration on a global scale.
*Rui Yang, Professor and Associate Dean of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong*

Breathtaking in its breadth – from public good in South African undergraduate education to the existential crisis in post-Brexit UK – this well-written volume presents the most recent scholarship emerging from the world’s leading centre for higher education research
*Glen Jones, Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada*

A thoughtful, data-driven and extraordinarily useful analysis of key themes shaping the global higher education landscape.
*Philip G. Altbach, Founding Director, Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA*