As a global discourse emerges around global education, we will continue on the path towards placing education at the center of questions about what constitutes our nascent and evolving global culture. This book is a vital contribution to that emerging conversation.
- Parag Khanna, from the Foreword
Higher Education in the Global Age puts human capital front and center, right where it should be, in the next chapter of globalization. What policies on higher education should emerging economies consider in an interconnected world where education can both close and intensify socio-economic gaps? This important and timely book takes a hard look at the positive and negative roles that the globalization of higher education can play in politics, income inequality, culture, geopolitical power, innovation, and economic growth.
- Michele Wucker, President, World Policy Institute
Higher Education in the Global Age, edited by Daniel Araya and Peter Marber, asks a fundamental question about the role, status and global reach of higher education in an era where BRICS and newly emerging societies increasingly dominate the world economy. This book maps the emerging global territories of HE in regions and countries around the world providing the appropriate context to explore themes like the internationalization, regionalization and privatization, and policy and practice in global HE. The book is wide-ranging in geography, analytical in method, and robust in terms of the long-term geopolitics. The contributors are a group of well-known and distinguished scholars who address themselves to the big questions. It is a superb addition to the literature and should be read widely.
- Michael A. Peters, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois and Professor, Policy, Cultural & Social Studies in Education, University of Waikato
This book could not have arrived at a more critical time as higher education across the globe enters into a new phase of bewildering change centered on the reorganization of knowledge and ever-deepening levels of adventurist privatization and entrepreneurialism. This richly textured and highly illuminating collection of essays offers the reader poignant insights on the steady drift to academic capitalism in higher education and its consequences. It will serve as a marker of innovative and trenchant critique of the internationalization process in education, which has, to date, too often benefited from self-satisfied cheer leading and unchecked triumphalism.
- Cameron McCarthy, Research Professor, Hardie Fellow, Director of Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The university increasingly represents itself as, and is represented by its political supporters as, a key engine of the 'new economy'. It is a source of human capital development (its teaching mission), as well as technological and social innovation (its research and development mission). Higher Education in the Global Age is a wide-ranging survey of higher education in 'emerging societies'. These formerly 'peripheral' economies have sprung to life in recent decades, with significantly higher rates of growth than the traditional 'centre' of the world economic system. This book offers an insightful analysis of the role of higher education in this new dynamic of globalization.
- Bill Cope, Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
