Higher Education: "Higher education is now international in a way it has not been since the heyday of Europe's great medieval universities—and on a vastly greater scale...Private, profit-seeking institutions are still a minority, but almost all universities are beginning to compete for talent and money. That is breeding independence of government, both financially and psychologically; inexorably, the state's role is shrinking. The two big trends, of internationalisation and competition, feed each other. The more that universities tailor their offers to foreign students, the more attractive they become. And the more that students hop between countries, the more their choices count rather than the wishes of a particular government."
Posted by gsiemens at February 27, 2005 04:01 PM