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A World of Private Higher Education is the definitive treatment of a sector accounting for a third of the world's 200 million higher education enrolment.
List of contents
- 1: Discovering the World's Private Sector
- 2: Size and Shape: A Global Overview, Highlighting Regional Dimensions
- 3: Inside the Private Sector: The Typology
- 4: Inside the Identity Subsector: Mainly Religious
- 5: Elite, Especially Semi-Elite
- 6: The Non-Elite Subsector: Bursting at the Seams
- 7: Reflections on Privatization Through PHE
About the author
Daniel C. Levy earned his political science Ph.D. (1977), concentrating in comparative politics as well as public policy. From 1977 to 1982 he was Research Associate at Yale University's policy programs on higher education and nonprofit organizations, respectively. He has since taught at the University at Albany, becoming State University of New York Distinguished Professor (1998). Author of 11 books and over one-hundred articles ranging across higher education policy, related non-profit sectors, and Latin American politics, Levy has received long-term and lifetime awards from the leading scholarly association of higher education studies and comparative education studies.
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A World of Private Higher Education is the definitive treatment of a sector accounting for a third of the world's 200 million higher education enrolment.
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Daniel Levy's A World of Private Higher Education is an outstanding contribution to the field of comparative higher education. Professor Levy's latest book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of private higher education over the past decades in a global perspective. One of the great merits of the book is to bring out the distinctiveness and nuances that characterize the variety of private providers operating across the world through a skilled combination of thematic, historical, and geographical exploration. [This] work will undoubtedly be the most important reference for scholars and policy analysts interested in the world of private higher education.
