Rethinking private higher education : ethnographic perspectives /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 101 Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 101.
Subject:	Private universities and colleges -- Cross-cultural studies. Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies. Education, Higher -- Economic aspects. Private universities and colleges. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11036387

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Other authors / contributors:	Cantini, Daniele, editor.
ISBN:	9789004267398 (hardback : acid-free paper) 9004267395 (hardback : acid-free paper) 9789004291508 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Rethinking Private Higher Education' takes the university as a core institution in modern nation states, which is currently undergoing a serious revision. It offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of 'private' in different higher education contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies. This book explores how private universities were established, their context and history, and their changing business models and operations. The strengths of this book are its ethnographic detail, which shows the complexity and fast changing forms of private higher education, and its reluctance to jump to simplified labelling of public and private. It is a model for further ethnographic studies of local developments in higher education.
Other form:	Online version: Rethinking private higher education ethnographic perspectives Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004291508

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Rethinking Private Higher Education: A Collection of Ethnographic Perspectives
1. The Global Trade in Higher Education: A Tale of an American Company in the Middle East
2. Free Market and Higher Education: The Case of Low-Fee Universities in Peru
3. Challenges and Stakes in the Construction of a Private Market in Higher Education in Tunisia
4. Political, Financial and Moral Aspects of Sudan's Private Higher Education
5. Private Universities and the State in Egypt at a Time of Social and Political Change
6. University is a Private Matter: Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
7. In Search of the Private: On the Specificities of Private Higher Education in Germany
Afterword: Shifting Categories of Public and Private
Index

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