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Direct linkAltbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz; Rumbley, Laura E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
A global revolution has been taking place in higher education during the past half-century. In the educators' view, four fundamental and interrelated forces have impelled the current academic revolution: the "massification" of higher education, globalization, the advent of the knowledge society and the importance of research universities…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Human Capital, Privatization
Altbach, Philip G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
China and India together account for almost 25% of the world's postsecondary student population. Most of the enrolment growth in the coming several decades will be in developing countries, and China and India will contribute a significant proportion of that expansion, since China currently educates only about 20% and India 10% of the age cohort.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
