Download PDF by Maria Slowey,Hans Schuetze: Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong

The international growth of participation charges in better schooling proceed kind of unabated. notwithstanding, whereas the concept that of lifelong learning has figured prominently in nationwide and overseas academic coverage discourse for greater than 3 a long time, its implications for the sphere of upper schooling has remained quite underdeveloped.

This e-book specializes in a selected size of the lifelong studying: larger schooling should you haven't improved at once from tuition to raised schooling. a few will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature scholars, part-time and/or distance scholars; others desire to go back to better schooling after having accomplished (or no longer accomplished) a prior educational programme, whereas expanding numbers perform postgraduate and carrying on with reports for a fancy mixture of expert and private reasons.

Adopting a comparative and foreign longitudinal point of view which works past a image view via development at the situations of a middle workforce of ten OECD international locations, this well timed e-book investigates the ways that very important new advancements impacting on greater schooling crystallise round the lifelong studying agenda:

• new know-how and open resource resources;


• the altering function of the country and industry in greater education;


• the blurring of private and non-private boundaries;


• issues of fairness and entry in a time of worldwide monetary turmoil;


• the elevated emphasis on study and foreign league tables;


• the altering nature of the schooling; and,


• the complicated interplay of foreign, nationwide and nearby expectancies which governments and different stakeholders have of universities and different private and non-private associations of upper education.

While concentrating on the placement in Canada, united states, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a large choice of eu nations, the e-book additionally assesses the problems from the point of view of constructing countries.

Launched by way of the Irish Minister of schooling, this well timed publication is a needs to learn. discover extra right here: http://www4.dcu.ie/ovpli/herc/book_launch