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The Mockers and Mocked
V.l. Meek
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Description for The Mockers and Mocked
Hardcover. With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. This volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from a theoretical and empirical perspective in a comparative setting. Editor(s): Meek, V. Lynn (University of New England, Armidale, Australia); Geodegebuure, L.; Kivinen, O.; Rinne, R. Series: Issues in Higher Education S. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. Diversity is seen as good because it supposedly increases the range of choices for students, matches the education provided to the needs and abilities of individual students, enables and protects specialization within systems, and meets the demands of an increasingly complex social order. However, little is known about the internal dynamics of higher education systems working for or against particular levels of diversity. The present volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from ... Read more
With the emergence of mass higher education, many national governments have identified a diverse higher education system as a policy objective. Diversity is seen as good because it supposedly increases the range of choices for students, matches the education provided to the needs and abilities of individual students, enables and protects specialization within systems, and meets the demands of an increasingly complex social order. However, little is known about the internal dynamics of higher education systems working for or against particular levels of diversity. The present volume attempts to further our understanding of processes affecting diversity by addressing them from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780080425634
SKU
V9780080425634
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99-15
Reviews for The Mockers and Mocked
Martin Hayden, Southern Cross University This book makes an important contribution to the literature on policy studies in higher education because of the quality of the contributions, the status of the contributors and the importance of the topics addressed. The book provides and extraordinarily rich insight into the remarkable diversity across, and within, national higher education systems and it presents ... Read more