Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

• Main Author: McCowan, Tristan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education,
• Subjects: Higher education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Education Policy.

This book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In contrast to the previous Millennium Development Goals, higher education is seen to have a crucial role in this new agenda. Yet how can the university fulfil these weighty expectations, and are the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART I
• Chapter 2. The role of education in development
• Chapter 3. The anatomy of the university
• Chapter 4. The developmental model
• Chapter 5. Three global trends: status competition, commodification and unbundling
• PART II
• Chapter 6. Access
• Chapter 7. Quality
• Chapter 8. Impact on the SDGs
• PART III
• Chapter 9. Limits of the developmental model
• Chapter 10. The post-development university.