This comparative text considers models of higher education in the UK and the US and individuals' perceptions about the role of university in society.

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transforma

This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedde

The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on world-class universities inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increas