Global Inequalities and Higher Education

A strong feature of the book is that it is timely and fresh. The editors have done much work to connect to sensibilities of the global recession and the emerging effects in higher education and the developing world' - Dr Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne '...based on genuine scholarship rather than high-class journalism.' - THE

Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.