Higher education in societies : : a multi scale perspective / / edited by Gaële Goastellec and France Picard.
Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities. Structured around the central...
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| Superior document: | Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series ; Volume 7 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Higher education research in the 21st century series (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers) ;
Volume 7. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard
- Introduction / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard
- How Do University, Higher Education and Research Contribute to Societal Well-Being? / Michèle Lamont
- A Persian Grandee in Lausanne / Sheldon Rothblatt
- A New Social Contract for Higher Education? / Peter Maassen
- Higher Education and Public Good / Simon Marginson
- Defending Knowledge as the Public Good of Higher Education / Joanna Williams
- Partisan Politics in Higher Education Policy / Jens Jungblut
- Access, Equity and Regional Development / Rómulo Pinheiro
- Shrinking Higher Education Systems / Madalena Fonseca , Sara Encarnação and Elsa Justino
- Pathways to Higher Education in France and Switzerland / Jake Murdoch , Christine Guégnard , Maarten Koomen , Christian Imdorf and Sandra Hupka-Brunner
- The Development of the Québec Higher Education System / France Picard , Pierre Canisius Kamanzi and Julie Labrosse
- Engineering Access to Higher Education through Higher Education Fairs / Agnès van Zanten and Amélia Legavre
- Conclusion / France Picard and Gaële Goastellec
- About the Authors / Gaële Goastellec and France Picard.