Higher Education in a State of Crisis (Hardcover, New)

Throughout recent decades, higher education has played a steadily greater role in national development, contributing towards heightened competitiveness and turning knowledge into a factor of differentiation in both socio-economic and market contexts. This book explores the state of crisis in the global higher education realm and includes topics such as the demand and supply of higher education which is impacting unemployment; the practice of institutional integration; training teachers for vocational and technical education and the fragmentation of nursing education.