University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy Triumph of the BRICs [Hardcover]

This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economiesBrazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully they create quality higher education that puts their labor forces at the cutting edge of the information society.

Using an empirical, comparative approach, this book develops a broad picture of the higher education system in each country in the context of both global and local forces. The authors offer insights into how differing socioeconomic and historic patterns of change and political contexts influence developments in higher education. In asking why each state takes the approach that it does, this work situates a discussion of university expansion and quality in the context of governments' educational policies and reflects on the larger struggles over social goals and the distribution of national resources.

A study of higher education expansion and quality in the world's four largest developing economiesBrazil, Russia, India, and Chinathat asks how each state actively develops its higher education system, including achieving mass expansion and aiming for greater quality, in the context of the many forces, global and local, that impinge on its society, including on its existing higher education institutions. University Expansion in a Changing Global Economyis, without question, the most comprehensive analysis of the rapidly changing higher education realities in the emerging BRIC superpowers. It combines thoughtful analysis with current data and useful comparisons, and reveals that each of these countries faces significant challenges as they seek to build 'world-class' higher education systems. Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University.Prashant Loyalka is Center Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute, Stanford UnilCÔ