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Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in
most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic
approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society.
Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this
insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by
higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising,
observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions. Prepared
by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters
investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education
and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and
cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and
institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education
include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and
scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the
structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole
populations, as well as work and advice for government at all
levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments
careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape
them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and
international understanding. The book highlights the value added by
higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities,
nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the
distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing
higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet.
International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove
an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher
education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove
a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary
education policymakers who want to make higher education more
effectively accountable to the public.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open
access book is a result of the first ever study of the
transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in
fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that
developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union
over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national
systems, systems that have responded to national and global
developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book
is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the
reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and
it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the
institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet
and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the
former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations
of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be
highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of
higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an
interest in historical and comparative studies.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open
access book is a result of the first ever study of the
transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in
fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that
developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union
over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national
systems, systems that have responded to national and global
developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book
is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the
reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and
it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the
institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet
and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the
former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations
of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be
highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of
higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an
interest in historical and comparative studies.
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