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Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners (Hardcover)
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Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners (Hardcover)
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The global expansion of participation rates in higher education
continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of
lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and
international educational policy discourse for more than three
decades, its implications for the field of higher education has
remained relatively underdeveloped. This book focuses on a
particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for
those who have not progressed directly from school to higher
education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature
students, part-time and/or distance students; others wish to return
to higher education after having completed (or not completed) a
previous academic programme, while increasing numbers participate
in postgraduate and continuing studies for a complex mix of
professional and personal reasons. Adopting a comparative and
international longitudinal perspective which goes beyond a snapshot
view by building on the cases of a core group of ten OECD
countries, this timely book investigates the ways in which
important new developments impacting on higher education
crystallise around the lifelong learning agenda: new technology and
open source resources; the changing role of the state and market in
higher education; the blurring of public and private boundaries;
issues of equity and access in a time of global economic turmoil;
the increased emphasis on research and international league tables;
the changing nature of the education; and, the complex interaction
of international, national and regional expectations which
governments and other stakeholders have of universities and other
public and private institutions of higher education. While focusing
on the situation in Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and
a wide variety of European countries, the book also assesses the
issues from the perspective of developing countries. Launched by
the Irish Minister of Education, this timely book is a must read.
Find out more here: http://www4.dcu.ie/ovpli/herc/book_launch
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