Higher Education has become a central institution of society, building individual knowledge, skills, agency, and relational social networks at unprecedented depth and scale. Within a generation there has been an extraordinary global expansion of Higher Education. By focusing on the systems and countries that have already achieved near universal participation, High Participation Systems of Higher Education explores this remarkable transformation. Part I of the book explores the growth of participation and the implications for society and Higher Education itself, theorizing key changes in Higher Education and the subsequent effects in educational and social equity. The propositions developed in these chapters are then tested in the country case studies in Part II, presenting a comprehensive enquiry into the nature of the emerging 'high participation society'.
Worldwide Tendencies 1: Simon Marginson: High participation systems (HPS) of higher education 2: Brendan Cantwell, Patrick Clancy, and Simon Marginson: Comparative data on high participation systems 3: Brendan Cantwell, Romulo Pinheiro, and Marek Kwiek: Governance 4: Dominik Antonowicz, Brendan Cantwell, Isak Froumin, Glen A. Jones, Simon Marginson, and Romulo Pinheiro: Horizontal diversity 5: Brendan Cantwell and Simon Marginson: Vertical stratification 6: Simon Marginson: Equity 7: Anna Smolentseva: High participation society Country Cases 8: Glen A. Jones: Decentralization, provincial systems, and the challenge of equity: High participation higher education in Canada 9: Brendan Cantwell: Broad access and steep stratification in the first mass system: High participation higher education in the United States of America 10: Simon Marginson: Regulated isomorphic competition and the middle layer of institutions: High participation higher education in Australia 11: Anna Smolentseva, Isak Froumin, David L. Konstantinovskiy, and Mikhail Lisyutkin: Stratification by the state and the market: High participation higher education in Russia 12: Marek Kwiek: Building a new society and economy: High participation higher education in Poland 13: Jussi Valimaa and Reetta Muhonen: Reproducing social equality across the generations: The Nordic model of high participation higher education in Finland 14: Romulo Pinheiro and Bjorn Stensaker: Balancing efficiency and equity in a welfare state setting: High participation higher education in Norway 15: Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Futao Huang: Towards universal access amid demographic decline: High participation higher education in Japan 16: Brendan Cantwell, Simon Marginson, and Anna Smolentseva: Conclusions: High participation higher education in the post-Trow era
Dr Brendan Cantwell Brendan Cantwell is an associate professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education in Michigan State University's Department of Educational Administration. His research, which has been published in a variety of journals and books, addresses the political economy of higher education. Dr Cantwell is a co-editor of The Handbook of Politics of Higher Education (with Hamish Coates and Roger King) and is a Coordinating Editor for the journal Higher Education. Professor Simon Marginson Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK, Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. CGHE is a government-research partnership of five UK and eight international universities with 16 projects on global, national, and local aspects of higher education. Professor Marginson's research and published scholarship are focused on the global and international dimensions of higher education, on national system dynamics, and on higher education and social equality. Dr Anna Smolentseva Anna Smolentseva is a senior researcher at the Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is a sociologist who works on the changing role of higher education in societies, educational inequality, and transformations in post-socialist higher education systems. Dr Smolentseva received a PhD in sociology from Moscow State University. She has been a recipient of a US National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship, Fulbright New Century Scholar grant, and a visiting scholar at the CSHPE at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an author of a number of publications in Russian and English.