Myth, reality, and reform
Subtitle: higher education policy in Latin America
By: Claudio de Moura Castro and Daniel C. Levy.
Contributors: Levy, Daniel C.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Latin America.; Education and state -- Latin America.; Educational change -- Latin America.
Description: "Analysis of higher education is often divided between those who see little need for change and others who want to arbitrarily overhaul the system and impose unfamiliar policies. Such polar assessments preclude an objective examination of Latin America's higher education system and the ways to reform it.".

"Myth, Reality, and Reform bridges these critiques by balancing the importance of the four key functions of higher education: academic leadership, professional development, technological training and development, and general higher education. The book suggests how to consolidate the strengths of higher education systems while fundamentally reforming their weaker features.

Policy proposals dealing with finance, governance, and quality control are linked to the distinctive needs of each educational function." "The book's broad but provocative analysis - which examines higher education both in terms of domestic development and the international educational reform process - is aimed at a general audience as well as scholars and policymakers working in the education field."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-116).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Waldemar W. Wirsig; title: Introduction; title: Mixed performance; title: Differentiated and complex systems; title: A typology for distinguishing myth from reality; title: Key policy issues; title: Between status quo and neoliberal extremes.