Universities for a New World: Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013 - Hardcover

9788132113393: Universities for a New World: Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013

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ISBN 10: 813211339X ISBN 13: 9788132113393

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2013

Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’ in modern higher education.

The book succinctly explores the rise of the ACU as the world’s oldest network of universities, before focussing primarily on that protean ‘revolution’ in higher education provision - with a particular sampling of the diverse Commonwealth experience across the globe. Gains as well as losses are analysed through critical and interrelated essays. Transformation may have been inevitable, but progress towards greater participation rates has not always been manifested through quality provision for students or societies at large. Measuring those changes to universities is inherently challenging as transformations are still proceeding apace. The volume accordingly concludes with informed perspectives on the potential future(s) of universities in the 21st century. Paradoxically, further change is now the only constant for higher education in an era of globalisation.

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Review:

[The book] is a highly interesting and useful addition to the literature of higher education.

(Contemporary education dialogue)

About the Author:

Deryck M Schreuder is an international historian and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. He was a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford from Central Africa, and has worked in eight Commonwealth universities (in Africa, the UK, Canada, and Australia). He was Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney, before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney, and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia. He was President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee in 2002–04. He has published (with Stuart Ward) the ‘Australia’ volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire Series (2nd ed., 2010).

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