A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education [Paperback]

A?Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education, including government policy and its impact on the ongoing growth of the sector. The title brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers, also including the key contributing factors of the changes from 17 countries.

• Provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade
• Presents the significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher education
• Brings together the trends relating to the growth and the decline of private higher education providers

Preface

1. Europe From Growth to Decline? Demand-Absorbing Private Higher Education when Demand is Over

2. UK Privately-funded higher education providers in the UK: the changing dynamic of 'the HE sector'

3. Uruguay The new state of private universities in Latin America

4. China The Evolution of a New Hybrid Organizational Form in Chinese Higher Education: An Institutionalist Analysis

5. Italy Private higher education in Italy

6. Europe What role for Private Higher Education in Europe?

7. Reflecting about Current Patterns and Future Prospects

8. Hong Kong A Great Leap Forward: Changes and Challenges for Private Higher Education in Hong Kong&ll#)