Understanding Mass Higer Education
Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives on Access
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415354912
Subjects: Higher & further education; Education / Teaching; Education; Higher; Education / Higher; Adult & Continuing Education; Comparative
First sentence: This introductory chapter underlines the universality of the rise of mass higher education in the second half of the twentieth century as a shift from an elite system and as a significant element of wider social change in advanced capitalist economies with liberal democratic political systems.