This book asks whether there is an alternative approach to this now transnational competitive logic.
The thirteen papers in this collection address three aspects of higher education, primarily in Europe but also in the United States.
Chapter 1 The Education Market Place and the Collaborative Response: An Introduction -- part Part 1: Mapping the Development of Collaborative Networks -- chapter 2 Schools, Markets and Collaboration: New Models for Educational Polity? -- ...
Taking a global perspective, the chapters within this book follow a common framework to explore how macro-level factors help to create the conditions in which school-to-school collaboration is likely to succeed or fail ‘on the ground’.
Written in accessible language, this book will be of practical value to school managers, teachers, parents and others with an interest in schools as well as to researchers and policy makers.
For-profit firms use the Internet to offer classes, courses, and degree programs in direct competition with nonprofit and government-supported colleges and universities.