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Direct linkPerry L. Glanzer – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
A recent global reconnaissance of Christian higher education found a number of key themes that shaped current developments, such as the pressing challenges of secularization and nationalization but also the advantages of privatization and massification. This article provides an update to this older analysis by taking a birds-eye view of trends…
Descriptors: Christianity, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Religious Education
Hartmann, Eva – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This contribution focuses on quality assurance (QA) agencies in the sphere of higher education. It develops a theoretical framework that interrelates systems theory with Gramsci's theory of hegemony with a view to situating this new control of universities in the broader context of a further differentiation of society and emerging heterarchical…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Privatization
Buckner, Elizabeth – Sociology of Education, 2017
This article investigates cross-national patterns of public and private higher education institution (HEI) foundings from 1960 to 2006. It argues that in addition to national demographic and economic factors, patterns of HEI foundings also reflect world-level models about how nations should structure their higher education systems. Findings…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Economic Factors, Educational Development
Kwiek, Marek – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper seeks to conceptualize the processes of de-privatization in higher education. Trends of de-privatization (and contraction in enrolments) are highly interesting because they go against global trends of privatization (and educational expansion). De-privatization means a decreasing role for the private component in the changing…
Descriptors: Privatization, Higher Education, Trend Analysis, Declining Enrollment
Levy, Daniel C. – European Journal of Education, 2012
The importance of private higher education (PHE) is increasingly clear globally. But does Europe fit the global generalisation? This question can be assessed with reference to two major considerations: the size of PHE and the degree of private-public difference. The growth of PHE in Europe has been delayed and limited compared to that in most of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
Levy, Daniel – European Education, 2014
With the fall of communism in 1989, Eastern and Central Europe would quickly become part of an already strong global tide of privatization in higher education. Nowhere else did private higher education rise so suddenly or strongly from virtual nonexistence to a major regional presence. A fresh database allows us to analyze the extent and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Educational Change
