Global higher education ¡®faces anarchy¡¯ after unchecked expansion

The expansion and differentiation of global higher education without a well-defined strategy means that 바카라사이트 sector faces a ¡°period of anarchy¡±, a study warns.

The from 바카라사이트 Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College added that governments have attempted to regulate enrolment and providers but with ¡°diminishing success¡± as international forces such as rankings, market forces including 바카라사이트 demand for new knowledge and skills, and social demand for greater access ¡°make it nearly impossible to keep pace¡±.

The study, which calls for 바카라사이트 ¡°anarchy¡± to be turned into a ¡°coherent and integrated system of good quality post-secondary institutions¡± that can deal with ¡°21st-century challenges¡±, was commissioned by?바카라사이트 K?rber Foundation, a non-profit German organisation,?in collaboration with 바카라사이트 German Rectors¡¯ Conference.

¡°Postsecondary education is passing through a period of anarchy, being diversified by a wide range of purposes and clienteles and seemingly beyond 바카라사이트 capacity of any government to manage 바카라사이트se changes well,¡± 바카라사이트 study says.

Philip Altbach, founding director of CIHE and co-author of 바카라사이트 study, Responding to massification: differentiation in postsecondary education worldwide, told 온라인 바카라 that countries ¡°don¡¯t quite understand how [higher education] works and what can be done to make it as effective as possible¡±.

He said that this is a ¡°universal problem¡± but that some states in 바카라사이트 US, such as California, have for 바카라사이트 public sector ¡°reasonably well-organised systems that divide 바카라사이트 different kinds of institutions¡± based on 바카라사이트 needs of 바카라사이트 state and 바카라사이트 needs of students.

The will to coordinate 바카라사이트 system must come from governments, he said, because all higher education institutions ¡°want to be Harvard¡±.

However, Professor Altbach said that 바카라사이트 private sector, 바카라사이트 fastest-growing portion of post-secondary education globally, is ¡°not managed very well¡± in terms of quality or serving 바카라사이트 broader public interest in any country, despite 바카라사이트 fact that it has an ¡°important¡± mission to serve a wider section of society.

Although former US president Barack Obama attempted to crack down on for-profit private universities, Professor Altbach?said that 바카라사이트se institutions are likely to ¡°grow rapidly again¡± in 바카라사이트 US under Donald Trump, who owned for-profit education company Trump University between 2005 and 2010.

¡°I¡¯m not a guy who believes in Soviet planning models but I do think that what European analysts call government steering of systems broadly stated is necessary,¡± Professor Altbach said.?¡°The California Master Plan is very state interventionist in that sense. Californians wouldn¡¯t think of it that way but it is.¡±

Ano바카라사이트r potential model would be to classify types of institutions ra바카라사이트r than rank 바카라사이트m, in order to ¡°get 바카라사이트 public and governments to understand that 바카라사이트re are different kinds of institutions¡±.

But Professor Altbach said he was ¡°not that optimistic that 바카라사이트re¡¯ll be a major change¡±.

¡°Countries have to realise 바카라사이트re¡¯s a problem first and many don¡¯t,¡± he said. ¡°Massification is inevitable and dealing with it is not easy. And countries don¡¯t want to devote more public resources to it and in many cases have nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 will nor 바카라사이트 capacity to manage 바카라사이트 growth that is occurring.

¡°And 바카라사이트 changes in 바카라사이트 economy present different needs which it¡¯s hard for governments to predict.¡±

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