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Globalization, Higher Education and Inequalities: Problems and Prospects

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  • Vincent Carpentier
  • Elaine Unterhalter

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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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  • Vincent Carpentier & Elaine Unterhalter, 2011. "Globalization, Higher Education and Inequalities: Problems and Prospects," Chapters, in: Roger King & Simon Marginson & Rajani Naidoo (ed.), Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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