Higher education in societies : : a multi scale perspective / / edited by Gaële Goastellec and France Picard.

• Superior document: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series ; Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Goastellec, Gaële,; Picard, France,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2014.; ©2014
• Année de publication: 2014
• Édition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Langue: English
• Collection: Higher education research in the 21st century series (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers) ; Volume 7.
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students’ access to universities. Structured around the central...