How global competition for the brightest minds is changing higher education
In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education–and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universities are springing up from Abu Dhabi and Singapore to South Africa. Wildavsky shows that as international universities strive to become world-class, the new global education marketplace is providing more opportunities to more people than ever before.
Drawing on extensive reporting in China, India, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Wildavsky chronicles the unprecedented international mobility of students and faculty, the rapid spread of branch campuses, the growth of for-profit universities, and the remarkable international expansion of college rankings. Some university and government officials see the rise of worldwide academic competition as a threat, going so far as to limit student mobility or thwart cross-border university expansion. But Wildavsky argues that this scholarly marketplace is creating a new global meritocracy, one in which the spread of knowledge benefits everyone–both educationally and economically. In a new preface, Wildavsky discusses some of the notable developments in global higher education since the book was first published.
Про автора
Ben Wildavsky is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the award-winning author of
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections (Princeton) and the coeditor of
Reinventing Higher Education and
Measuring Success. The host and coproducer of the
Higher Ed Spotlight podcast, he has written for leading publications such as the
Washington Post, the
Wall Street Journal, and
Foreign Policy and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.
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