The Great Brain Race (eBook)

How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World

Ben Wildavsky (Autor)

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2012
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4200-1 (ISBN)

Infos

How global competition for the brightest minds is changing higher educationIn The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to more people than ever before.Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion. But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically. In a new preface, Wildavsky discusses some of the notable developments in global higher education since the book was first published.

Autor

Ben Wildavsky is a senior scholar in research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was education editor of U.S. News & World Report, economic policy correspondent for the National Journal, higher education reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and executive editor of the Public Interest. He has written for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy (among other publications) and is co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2012
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic degree • academic freedom • Academic Mobility • Affirmative Action • americans • Bachelor's degree • California Institute of Technology • Career • Carnegie Mellon University • Chancellor (education) • Collaboration • College and university rankings • Company • Competition • Cornell University • credential • debt • diploma • Distance Education • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • Double degree • Economic Growth • economist • Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service • Education • Educational technology • Education City • Entrepreneurship • Expense • Faculty (academic staff) • For-profit higher education in the United States • Free Trade • Funding • George Mason University • Global Education • Globalization • global university • Governance • Graduate school • Graduation • higher education • Higher education in the United States • Human Capital • Indian Institutes of Technology • Insead • Inside Higher Ed • Institution • International education • Internationalization • International Student • Internship • Joint Venture • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology • Knowledge Economy • learning • Lecture • Liberalization • Malaysia • Marketing • master's degree • McKinsey &amp • McKinsey & Company • Meritocracy • Nanjing University • National University of Singapore • New York University • obstacle • OpenCourseWare • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • parent company • Philip Altbach • Postdoctoral researcher • private university • Professor • protectionism • Public university • Rector (academia) • Research and Development • salary • Satellite campus • Saudi Arabia • Scholarship • Shanghai Jiao Tong University • shortage • Stanford University • Suggestion • Technology • The Chronicle of Higher Education • Tsinghua University • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • Universities in the United Kingdom • University • University and college admission • University of Malaya • University of Phoenix • University of Warwick • University System • U.S. News &amp • U.S. News & World Report • World Report • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4200-X / 140084200X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4200-1 / 9781400842001