1st Edition

Access and Expansion Post-Massification Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation

Edited By Ben Jongbloed, Hans Vossensteyn Copyright 2016
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

The twenty-first century has the potential to be the era of universal higher education access: the post-massification century. The growth of knowledge-based service industries and an increased need for technological and social innovations require more education, training, and re-training at the post-secondary level. This edited collection addresses the crucial issues emerging from this ongoing... Read more
 

1. Access to Higher Education: Massification and Beyond Hans Vossensteyn and Ben Jongbloed

Part I: Institutional diversity

2. Access, Equity and the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups Gareth Parry

3. Government Policies as Responses to Increased Demand for Higher Education: Experiences from Asian Private and Public Sectors Prachayani Praphamontripong Kanwar

4. Digital Players in an Analogue World: Higher Education in Poland in the Post-Massification Era Dominik Antonowicz

Part II: System strategy and transparency

5. California: Facing Pressing Challenges in Expanding Mass Higher Education Alicia Kinne and William Zumeta

6. The Effect of Rankings on Student Choice and Institutional Selection Ellen Hazelkorn

Part III: Student financing and equity policies

7. Student Funding and the Social Dimension in Croatian Higher Education Karin Doolan, Thomas Farnell, Ninoslav Šćukanec and Jon File

8. The Cultural Determinants of Access to Post-Secondary (Higher) Education in Canada: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman

Part IV: New modes of delivery

9. New Modes of Delivery: The Threatened Potential of Part-time Undergraduate Education in England Claire Callender

10. Between Challenges and Trends of Lifelong Learning: Higher Education and the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning Ana Luisa de Oliveira Pires

11. In Conclusion: Doing more with Less: New Ways of Providing and Financing Higher Education in the Post-Massification Era Ben Jongbloed and Hans Vossensteyn

Biography

Ben Jongbloed is a senior research associate of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Hans Vossensteyn is the Director and a senior researcher of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and Professor of Higher Education and Science Management at the Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany.