On the day that the army of Bakhtiyar Khalji arrived, Nalanda University was by far the
largest in the world. Located in what is today Bihar in North-Eastern India, its students came …

Higher education is increasingly acknowledged by national governments and international
agencies as a key driver of development, and systems are expanding rapidly in response to …

Concerns over equity of access to higher education are widespread, but there is significant
disagreement over what should constitute a fair system. This article assesses diverse …

Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways to analyze complex
state policies and offers the tools to examine how policies affect students' access and …

The concept of the 'public university'has been widely promoted as the principal alternative
vision for higher education to the neoliberal, managerialist model that currently prevails …

ABSTRACT A crisis of student funding has led to most South African universities being
closed for weeks, after protests in 2015 and again in 2016. A policy response to these …

This exploratory study represents the first attempt at examining the politics of exporting
Russian higher education to the former Soviet countries. The existing numeric and narrative …

Large classes have increasingly become a feature in many countries around the world. This
paper present a two-pronged analysis of this phenomenon, drawing on the political …

In this chapter we examine several community engagement strategies with higher education
institutions (HEIs) worldwide. We begin by defining community engagement in higher …

This paper directs attention to important changes in the role and funding of elite private
universities in the USA. At the center of these changes is the private endowment—an …