In "The Great Brain Race," former" U.S. News & World Report"
education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account
of how international competition for the brightest minds is
transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution
should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million
international students study outside of their home countries, a 40
percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities
in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of
Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence.
Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from
Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as
international universities strive to become world-class, the new
global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to
more people than ever before.
Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United
States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the
unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the
rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit
universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college
rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of
worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to
limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion.
But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a
new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge
benefits everyone--both educationally and economically. In a new
preface, Wildavsky discusses some of the notable developments in
global higher education since the book was first published.
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