International Higher Education
Issue Index
Issue #50 Winter 2008
The 50th Issue of IHE
50 Issues—A Dozen Years of Service to Higher Education
Philip G. Altbach
Globalization and Forces for Change in Higher Education
Philip G. Altbach
The Growing Accountability Agenda: Progress or Mixed Blessing?
Jamil Salmi
Internationalization: A Decade of Changes and Challenges
Jane Knight
Private Higher Education: Patterns and Trends
Daniel Levy
Graduate Education in Latin America: The Coming of Age
Jorge Balan
New Developments in International Research Collaboration
Sachi Hatakenaka
The United States: Global Issues
International Student Mobility and the United States: The 2007 Open Doors Survey
Patricia Chow and Rachel Marcus
The Management and Funding of US Study Abroad
Brian Whalen
US Accreditation: Bridging the International and National Dialogue Gap
Judith Eaton
Financing
The Private Financing of Higher Education
Ryan Hahn
Higher Education Finance in Ghana
Francis Atuahene
European Developments
Higher Education under a Labour Government
Michael Shattock
European Students in the Bologna Process
Manja Klemencic
Countries and Regions
Corruption in Vietnamese Higher Education
Dennis Charles McCornac
Issue #51 Spring 2008
International Issues
The "Subprime" Market and International Higher Education
Philip G. Altbach
Foreign-Backed Universities: A New Trend
Ute Lanzendorf
Academic Freedom in Muslim Societies
Richard Kraince
Private Developments
China's Private Universities: A Successful Case Study
Ruth Hayhoe and Jing Lin
Demand-Absorbing Private Institutions in Mexico
Juan Carlos Silas
African Perspectives
African Higher Education: Projecting the Future
Damtew Teferra
International Education Providers in Nigeria
Isaac N. Obasi and Olamide Esther Adesina and Susan Obasi
Higher Education Trends in Eritrea
Ravinder Rena
India
Indian Higher Education at the Crossroads
Pawan Agarwal
Vedanta University: A Flawed Pipe Dream
Philip G. Altbach
Israel
Education Crisis in Israel—Payback Time for the Original Sin
Roxana Reichman
The Relative Strength of Israel's Private Colleges
Daniel Levy
European Trends
Rankings, Diversity, and Excellence: A European Policy Challenge?
Ellen Hazelkorn
Performance-Based Funding of Universities: The Italian Experience
Tommaso Agasisti
Countries and Regions
The University Entrance Exam Crisis in Iran
Shahrzad Kamyab
Issue #52 Summer 2008
Global Issues
The Costs and Benefits of "Open Access" Scholarship
Philip G. Altbach
Teaching in English on the Rise in European Higher Education
Bernd Wachter
The Humanities and Social Sciences in Asia: Endangered Species?
Philip G. Altbach
The Academic Profession
Exploring Academic Salaries in a Comparative Context
Ivan F. Pacheco and Laura E. Rumbley
Research Careers: Some Reflections from Europe
Ulrich Teichler and Harald Schomburg
The Crisis of the American Academic Workforce
Philip G. Altbach and Martin Joel Finkelstein
Latin America
Is There a Latin American University Model?
Andres Bernasconi
Measuring Institutional Quality in Argentina: The Devil Is in the Details
Liz Reisberg
Eastern European Reforms
Education Reform in Montenegro: Public and Private Tensions
Joseph Stetar and Vucina Zoric
The Lithuanian Case of Higher Education Reforms in Europe
Liudvika Leisyte
Western European Developments
Germany's "Excellence Initiative"
Daniel Fallon
Universities and Social Cohesion in the European Union
Michael N. Bastedo
American Trends
Participation, Persistence, and Attainment Rates: The US Standing
Arthur M. Hauptman
For-Profit Universities in the Political Economy of Higher Education
Brian Pusser
Countries and Regions
Knowledge Economies: The Singapore Example
Ravinder Kaur Sidhu
Politics, Ethnicity, and the Mission of the University: The Kenyan Example
Weycliffe Otieno
Issue #53 Fall 2008
International Issues
Academic Career Structures: Bad Ideas
Philip G. Altbach and Christine Musselin
Degree Mills: A Silent Crisis
Degree Mills: The Impact on Students and Society
Judith Eaton and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic
When Criminals Control the Ministry of Education
George Gollin
Clipping the Wings of Degree Mills in Nigeria
Peter Okebukola
Internationalization
Globalization, Internationalization and Rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn
Internalization in the U.S.: Slipping Backward?
Kim Koch
The Private Nature of Cross-Border Higher Education
Jason E Lane and Kevin Kinser
Jamaica's Policy Toward GATS
Terence Frater
China: Domestic and International
Transnational Education in China
Robin Matross Helms
Joint Venture Campuses in China
Osman Ozturgut
China's Teriary Education Expansion
Ma Xiaoying and Malcolm Abbott
Indian Trends
Indian Higher Education Internationalization
Philip G. Altbach
Caste, Class, and Quality at the Indian Institutes of Technology
Asha Gupta
Countries and Regions
US Regional Accreditation Abroad
Jean Avnet Morse
Malaysian Challenges
William Gerard Tierney and M. Sirat
Efforts to Reconstruct Afghan Higher Education
Michael Daxner