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The Standardization of Higher Education, Positional Competition and the Global Labor Market

In: Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education

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  • Hugh Lauder
  • Phillip Brown

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Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition.

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  • Hugh Lauder & Phillip Brown, 2011. "The Standardization of Higher Education, Positional Competition and the Global Labor Market," Chapters, in: Roger King & Simon Marginson & Rajani Naidoo (ed.), Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, chapter 28, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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