Studies in Higher Education

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1. Inhabiting the Borders

   Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

   By Robin Matross Helms

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Market for Academics

   By Christine Musselin

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   This book addresses academic labor markets in three countries: France, Germany, and the United States. The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin’s exhaustive empirical research...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Merit Aid and the Politics of Education

   By Erik C. Ness

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Assistance and State-University Relations

   By Jo Bastiaens

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. Focusing on the case study of Indonesia, Bastiaens demonstrates how international aid...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education

   By Antoni Verger

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless,...

   Published September 13th 2009 by Routledge
6. The WTO and the University

   Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education

   By Roberta Malee Bassett

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to...

   Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge