Global Inequalities and Higher Education

ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and the co-ordinator of a number of research projects on gender and education in Africa. She teaches on postgraduate courses and has published widely on gender, education and questions of equality. VINCENT CARPENTIER is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Higher and Professional Education. His comparative research on the relationship between educational systems, long economic cycles and social change is located at the interface of the history of education and political economy.

• PART I: MAPPING INEQUALITIES CONCEPTUALLYEducating the Other: Standpoint and Theory on the 'Internationalization' of Higher EducationGlobal Learning in a Neo-liberal Age: Implications for DevelopmentEquality and Equity in Higher Education Pedagogies in the Context of GlobalisationPART II: SOME DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITIESGlobal Rankings of Universities: A Perverse and Present BurdenPublic-private Substitution in Higher Education Funding and Kondratiev Cycles: The Impact on Home and International StudentsThe inter-relationship of Employment, Marriage and Higher Education Among Pakistani Students in the UKGlobalisation Perspectives and Cultural Exclusion in Mexican Higher EducationPART III: STRUGGLING FOR EQUALITYPedagogy for Rich Human Being-ness in Global TimesTackling Inequality Through Quality: A Comparative Case Study Exploring University Teachers' ViewsDevelopment Education, Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Higher Education: Towards a Transformatory Approach to LearningGlobalisation and the Professional Ethic of the Professoriat.

'A strong feature of the book is that it is timely and fresh. The editors have done much work to connect to sensibilities of the global recession and the emerging effects in higher education and the developing world' - Dr Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne '...based on genuine scholarship rather than high-class journalism.' - THE