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100	1		_aWildavsky, Ben.
245	1	0	_aGreat Brain Race, The.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2010.
264		4	_c�2010.
300			_a1 online resource (257 pages)
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505	0		_aCover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: What Is Global Higher Education-and Why Does It Matter? -- CHAPTER ONE: The Worldwide Race for Talent -- CHAPTER TWO: Branching Out -- CHAPTER THREE: Wanted: World-Class Universities -- CHAPTER FOUR: College Rankings Go Global -- CHAPTER FIVE: For-Profits on the Move -- CHAPTER SIX: Free Trade in Minds -- AFTERWORD -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_aIn The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a forty percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to more people than ever before. Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion. But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone--both educationally and economically.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aWildavsky, Ben _tGreat Brain Race, The: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press,c2010
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