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Global Institutions: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

In: Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education

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  • Marijk van der Wende

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Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition.

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  • Marijk van der Wende, 2011. "Global Institutions: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development," Chapters, in: Roger King & Simon Marginson & Rajani Naidoo (ed.), Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, chapter 6, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. World Bank, 2002. "Constructing Knowledge Societies : New Challenges for Tertiary Education," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 15224.
    2. Marijk van der Wende, 2009. "European Responses to Global Competitiveness in Higher Education," University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education qt718832p2, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
    3. Gregg Thomson and John Aubrey Douglass, 2009. "Decoding Learning Gains: Measuring Outcomes and the Pivotal Role of the Major and Student Backgrounds," University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education qt2173006c, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
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