Changing Higher Education for a Changing World - (Bloomsbury Higher Education Research) by Claire Callender & William Locke & Simon Marginson

Book Synopsis

Changing Higher Education for a Changing Worlddraws on the outcomes of the cutting-edge research programmes of the UK-based Centre for Global Higher Education, the world's largest social science research centre focused on higher education and its future. In countries with incomes at European levels, the majority of all families now have connections to higher education, and there is widespread popular interest in how it can be made better. Together, the contributors sharply illuminate key issues of public and policy interest across the world:

Do research universities make society more equal or more unequal?
Are students graduating with too much debt?
Who do we want to be attending universities?
Will learning technologies will abolish the need for bricks-and-mortar higher education institutions?
What can countries do to improve their scientific performance?
How can comparative teaching assessment and research assessment become much more effective?

The book explores higher education in the major higher education regions including China, Europe, the UK and the USA.

Review Quotes

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

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

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.