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Higher Education as a Field of Study: An Analysis of 495 Academic Programs, Research Centers, and Institutes across 48 Countries Worldwide
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Chan, Roy Y. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years. Notably, research centers/institutes and academic programs devoted to the field of higher education (tertiary education) has increased worldwide to now include peer-reviewed journals, books, reports and publications. Utilizing secondary data from 277 higher education…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, College Programs, Research and Development Centers, Periodicals
Back to Africa: Second Chances for the Children of West African Immigrants
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Bledsoe, Caroline H.; Sow, Papa – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
This paper examines the phenomenon of West African parents living in Europe and North America who send their older children back home: from places of high immigrant aspiration to those of hardship and privation. Drawing on a project on West African immigration to Europe and on previous field studies in Africa, we conclude that West African…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Parent Aspiration
Higher Education in International Perspective: A Survey and Bibliography.
Altbach, Philip G.; Kelly, David H. – 1985
International and comparative trends in higher education since the mid-1960s throughout the world are addressed in two essays, and a bibliography of some 7,000 works of higher education worldwide is presented. The essays were commissioned by the European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES), a decentralized unit of UNESCO. Philip G. Altbach's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction