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Higher Education

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Changes in Higher education National systems

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4 December 2008

Introduction

The shape and size of higher education systems have occupied the minds of policy makers in developed nation for nearly four decades now External and internal forces have brought in new changes such as societal impacts , government supervisory duties , faculty and students

In general the trend has been a move to private based universities and many for-profit private colleges and schools . This has been

fueled by the emerging globalization ICT new media technologies and knowledge society (Teichler , 2004

Globalisation

Globalisation has blurred the national bs as we used to know them through increased cross-b activities in higher education . This trend follows the world-wide dynamics in economic developments with colleges creating networks of colleges and campuses across different regions . As any other global based organisations , Schools and colleges have to brace for global competitiveness if they are to rank higher than their peers (John C , 2000

New media / ICT Technology

The proliferation of new and emerging technologies has revolutionized higher education content development and instruction delivery . Today global institutions are delivering their learning content via Internet through distance learning community based social networks , Videos and DVD 's . This has caused national education systems to change from the traditional classroom based to newer methods of instruction delivery and interaction between faculty and students . Widespread use of information technologies has converted physical locations and substituted them with networked centers across...

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