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Higher education has come under increasing public scrutiny in
recent years, assailed with demands for greater efficiency,
accountability, cost reduction, and, above all, job training.
Drawing upon examples from across the world, with an emphasis on
Anglo-American higher-education systems, this handbook employs
sociological approaches to address these pressing concerns. The
second edition is thoroughly updated and adds several new chapters
to shed further light on the transformations wrought by the
interrelated processes of massification, vocationalization, and
marketization that have swept through universities in the wake of
neoliberal reforms introduced by governments since the 1980s. The
handbook explores recent developments in higher-education systems
and policy as well as the everyday experiences of students and
staff and ongoing problems of inequality and diversity within
universities. In doing so, the chapters address a number of current
issues concerning the legitimacy of higher-educational credentials,
from the continuing debate regarding traditional pedagogies and the
role of universities in social class reproduction to more recent
concerns about standards in mass systems. Collectively, this
handbook demonstrates that the sociology of higher education has
the potential to play a leadership role in improving the myriad
higher-education systems around the world that are now part of an
interrelated set of subsystems, replete with both persistent
problems and promising prospects. This book is therefore necessary
reading for a variety of stakeholders within academia as well as
professionals and policy-makers interested in understanding higher
education and the acute challenges it faces.
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