Claire Callender OBE is Professor of Higher Education at Birkbeck University, UK, and at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK where she is Deputy Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education. William Locke is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK.
Higher education researchers will approach this book with keen anticipation ... The consistency of these accounts is a tribute to editorial control and direction, as well as the excellence of the contributors ... a major contribution to our research-based understanding of higher education policy and practice. * Higher Education * A vivid snapshot of higher education development in a world during the surge of populism and before the pandemic. It serves extremely well as a timely awakening. Its themes, contents and contributing authors from the research team reminds us of the pressing need for our concerted efforts in defending further integration on a global scale. * Rui Yang, Professor and Associate Dean of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Breathtaking in its breadth – from public good in South African undergraduate education to the existential crisis in post-Brexit UK – this well-written volume presents the most recent scholarship emerging from the world’s leading centre for higher education research * Glen Jones, Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada * A thoughtful, data-driven and extraordinarily useful analysis of key themes shaping the global higher education landscape. * Philip G. Altbach, Founding Director, Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA *