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Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India, South Africa and the United States address this central question by seeking to understand how unique national contexts shape affirmative action for students in higher education around the world.

In this volume, international contributors challenge prevalent views of the global marketplace to create a deeper understanding of higher education's role in knowledge creation and nation building.

The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university¿s future.

The 10th volume in the ground-breaking International Studies in Higher Education series, Tribes and Territories in Higher Education brings the latest thinking together with a new framework for understanding academic practices and research.

In a systematic, critical, and comparative manner, Universities and Regional Development shows internal and external audiences why, how, and when higher education's regional development efforts should take place.

The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government subsidies, to one where students pay a larger share of the costs. This volume will help to contribute to an understanding of how these trends occur in various countries and regions around the world, and the impact they have on higher education institutions, students, and society as a whole. With contributions for the UK, USA, South Africa and China this vital new book gives a truly global picture of the rapidly changing situation

This edited collection addresses the crucial issues emerging from the ongoing expansion of higher education, focusing on how national systems of higher education can respond further expand when traditional routes to have been largely exhausted.

Recently there has been massive growth in interest in various aspects of the quality of higher education provision. Largely that has been driven by the creation in countries worldwide of explicit policies and procedures to review, audit and evaluate provision and produce associated reports. In part the trend is associated in many countries with the granting by governments of a greater degree of autonomy to higher education institutions but with related increased requirements for accountability of the exercising of those powers. This book explores these issues and argues that in part they stem from the consequences of massification, growing globalisation, and the fostering desire to have a means of benchmarking standards internationally and intranationally.

Diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. This book will provide an opportunity to look at efforts at institutional change with respect to diversity in several countries where issues of diversity are moving beyond simply access for diverse populations to efforts at institutional transformation. Its purpose is to provide a comparative perspective with the hope that we will be able to see patterns across these contexts from which we might learn. This critical book is an essential for higher education scholars and practitioners with background in higher education.